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7 Kensington Park Gardens, W.

Oct.26th,1908.

My dear Wallace,

I am delighted to think that we shall have the pleasure of hearing you at our opening lecture. It seems peculiarly appropriate that the advance note of the Darwin Jubilee should be sounded by you at our table where during the last half century all the most important discoveries have been elucidated. I sincerely hope your health will enable you to deliver the lecture, but if you have any fear of your voice giving way you may count on me to do what I can as I explained in my former letter.

If you would like any diagrams, illustrations or lantern slides prepared we will take all the trouble and get them done, if you will let me have, the necessary directions. I thought perhaps you might like to throw on the screen [2] photographs of a page of a book, a sheet of MS, or some illustrative diagram. If so let me know and I will get the photograph taken, and the lantern slides prepared. The subject you outline is certainly one of the highest interest as well as the highest complexity, and delivered in our theatre will march an epoch in the history of the R[oyal].I[nstitution]. You will focus in a concrete form ideas which have been vaguely floating in the minds of thoughtful men since you struck the key hole many years ago.

I am glad to say my wife is now pretty well again. In the spring she had a severe attack of pneumonia and was in bed for ten weeks. The sea-side, and especially our favourite Sark, have now quite set her up again.

With kindest remembrances to yourself and family, in which Lady Crookes joins.

believe me, | very truly yours, | William Crookes. [signature]