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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
3 February 1891
Source of text:
- University College London, Special Collections: Galton 142/2B/3, Box 68
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/234
- Pearson, K. (1930). In: The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. Vol. 3A. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [pp. 128-129]
Summary:
Suggests a Committee of the British Association "for the purpose of deciding the two great fundamental but disputed points in organic evolution" - whether individually acquired external characters are inherited, and the amount and character of sterility when species are crossed and hybrid offspring breed.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project