ABSTRACT
When the regular lecturer withdrew in the summer of 1837, Watson taught a tenweek course on botany to medical students in Liverpool.1 *IlThat might have been a first step toward a permanent teaching position if he had not been leaving botany for phrenology. After switching to phrenology, he would not have contemplated seeking a teaching position, because British universities never hired professors of phrenology. In 1841 Watson resumed his correspondence with botanists by congratulating J. Hutton Balfour on becoming successor to William Hooker as Professor of Botany at Glasgow (11 April).
