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Dec[ember] 19, 1902

Dear Dr Wallace,

I am very much obliged to you for your last letter & I quite agree with you in the greater part of what you say — but I am rather inclined to think that Batorn[?] is [2] right in many cases with regain to discontinuous variation & that etc old adage "Nature which fruit for nature" is memoir [1 word illeg.] you.

In sent of the enormous variety of yours and many govern ranging every 100 miles or so to the Amazon valley in every valley [3] [116] of the Andes & in every island of the Malay Archipelago : do you think what natural selection the determining factor & every care. Is it not allowable to believe that many of these are within [1 word illeg.] which have perpetuation themselves ? I don't think that you at all agree with these ideas, but I think very much ¹ [4] like your opinion on the matter : the great variety of write of differing species in a comparatively small area, with much the same climate & [3 words illeg.] to print to travelling more than Natural Selection — something more hap-hazard if one may be allowed to use the term.

Yours very truely

W.W. Fowle^r2