RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1844.03. It is an hallucination to suppose that Quinarianism can be explained by air, earth & water. CUL-DAR205.5.96. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
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It is an hallucination to suppose that Quinarianism can be explained by air, earth & water — if it were only analogical resemblances it might be, so.— But as Botanists make number of groups & no aerial plants, better to omit whole subject— March: —44—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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