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30 Cumberland Road

Kew.

8th June 1911.

Dear Mr Wallace,

To the new Edition of the book, of which I now beg your acceptance of a copy, I have prefixed as that introduction, in which I have endeavoured to carry out the suggestion you made to me, many [2] years ago, of trying to correct the misconception of many geologists concerning Lyell's² teachings. Lyell's doctrines, to which Whewell³ gave the cumbrous and not very happy term "Uniformitarianism" (I prefer Grove's "Continuity" myself) was not so narrow & inelastic as they supposed. But he asked for proof, where they make assumption.

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The portrait, [illeg.] unpublished, is the earliest one known and though taken from a very faded photograph is I hope fairly satisfactory –

It gives the idea of a deeply thoughtful man and not merely of a very handsome one — like the Richmond and other engravings.

Hoping that you are [4] still keeping well, and with very kind remembrance,

Yours very faithfully | John W. Judd⁴ [signature]