M. Lecoq

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M. Lecoq was a French botanist. Charles Darwin mentioned this name in 1858 in the preface of his famous book On The Origin of Species as a believer in the modification of species. Darwin wrote: ["On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin; Preface to the first edition by the writer himself; taken from " [http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/preface.html literature.org] ".]

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A well-known French botanist, M. Lecoq, writes in 1854 ('Etudes sur Géograph. Bot.,' tom. i. p. 250), 'On voit que nos recherches sur la fixité ou la variation de l'espèce, nous conduisent directement aux idées émises, par deux hommes justement célèbres, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et Goethe.' Some other passages scattered through M. Lecoq's large work, make it a little doubtful how far he extends his views on the modification of species.

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