- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/214
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/214
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Is expecting Birch to stay so that he can work for 2 days at the museum.
About Poulton's address, Darwin, Darwinism and Max Müller. Discusses ideas regarding fertility, variation and sexual selection.
His meeting with Frederick Birch. Discusses means of storing and conserving insect specimens.
About theory of mutation, which Americans are taking up in place of Lamarckism.
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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.
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Has signed certificate for Dr Dixey. Weather in Dorset.
Poulton's lecture at Cape Town on Burchell and animal mimicry.
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.