- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 72
- Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 72
About struggle for existence. Fred Birch.
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About struggle for existence. Fred Birch.
Comments on Poulton's work. Mentions special collection illustrating mimicry. About exchanging books and Fred Birch.
About advance of £5 from Poulton to Birch. Sending books to Poulton. Papers for travelling naturalist.
Sending photos of himself, and butterfly papers. Aru Islands and wak-wak birds.
Inscription on book and photo, not wanting to blot the photograph.
About Poulton's address, Darwin, Darwinism and Max Müller. Discusses ideas regarding fertility, variation and sexual selection.
About theory of mutation, which Americans are taking up in place of Lamarckism.
How Poulton has gathered facts proving the non-heredity of acquired characteristics. About collecting. Mentions Birch.
About the naturalist Fred Birch, who intends to go on a collecting expedition in the Amazon. Mentions Thayer and Birch's wife Mary. Details progress in his garden.
Has received a letter from Mr Kaye about his experiences collecting in British Guiana. Birch should change his arrangements and go to Iquitos.
Has signed certificate for Dr Dixey. Weather in Dorset.
Sending a cutting from the Daily News 16/707. Can Poulton get pupils and friends at Oxford who are acquainted with continental opinion to reply to the author of the cutting? Gossip about Birch's travels. Darwinism in America. W. H. Towers on evolution.
Glad that Poulton's new book on Evolution is nearly completed. Hopes it will do something to expose the fallacies of the "mutationists" and the "mendelians." Lock's book on Variation, Heredity and Evolution. Criticisms of theory of mutation, and comments on mendelism. More about Fred Birch.
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Arrangements for visit from Poulton and his daughter. Fred Birch's address in Brazil.
Has read and corrected proofs of Poulton's work on Darwinism.
More on Poulton's book. ARW has paper coming out in Fortnightly which he expects will be attacked. ARW is finishing his book on Spruce.
Elaborates on his comments on the weakening of the argument in a chapter of Poulton's book. More about Fred Birch, whose daughter has just been born in Brazil.
ARW states that he will not assist with the election of Dr. Dixey to F.R.S, as he hasn't attended any meetings of the R.S. It would be an imposition to write to Lord Rayleigh on Dixey's behalf, as ARW does not know Lord Rayleigh.
It would be impossible and useless for ARW to promise any help and advice with Poulton's proposed periodical. Criticisms of the journal Nature. About his Royal Institution lecture. Has been ill.