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The Daily Mail London

Editorial Department,

Carmelite House, E.C.

9th January, 1912.

Dear Sir,

I have your letter of the 6th inst[ance]., in which you ask on whose authority your name was included in a list of those who had signed Sir William Ramsay's protest

of Fellows of the Royal Society, who were opposed to the passing of the National Insurance Act.

I have made inquiries, and I find that your name was copied from a list supplied to one of our representatives by Sir William Ramsay. I am unable to ascertain whether the list was correctly copied, as it was immediately afterwards returned to Sir William Ramsay; consequently I cannot say at this moment whether mistake was made by Sir William Ramsay, or by our representative. But I assume that you wish it to be announced that your name was included without authority, and I am publishing a paragraph to this effect in to-morrow's issue of the "Daily Mail."

I need hardly say that if the mistake was made by[[ 2]] our representative, I should not hesitate to offer you my apologies; but at present I am not disposed to admit this, as another name was included in the list without authority, and I found that that mistake was not due to our representative.

Yours allusion to the criminal practice of forgery I take to be a rhetorical flourish, which you will not expect me to discuss.

Yours faithfully, | Thomas Marlowe [signature]

Editor.

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M.