Cannot sign Poulton's memorial because it makes several statements of opinion with which ARW does not agree.
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Cannot sign Poulton's memorial because it makes several statements of opinion with which ARW does not agree.
Thanks Poulton for corrections he made.
About his date of birth and new book "a kind of pot-boiler".
About butterflies and house in Broadstone. Hard at work on "Astronomo-Biologoico-Physico book".
ARW seeks advice on behalf of young insect collector who wishes to travel abroad. Discusses possible regions - asks Poulton's opinion.
About arrangements for Poulton's visit. Thanks for information for young collector - discusses matter further.
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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