WCP3653

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15 May 1917

Dear Sir,

I thank you for your letter of May 12, received this morning, and am sorry to learn that the notice of Dr. Wallace appeared to you to be ultra vires. In my opinion it was justifiable to refer to the notorious fact that outside his special subject of Natural History, Dr. Wallace's judgement was not to be relied on. He was a regular paradoxer in ast[r]onomy, and his opinions upon vaccination, vivisection and such like matters were utterly opposed to the whole body of scientific thought. I think that as a general review of the book not strictly geographical there is not much to disagree with in the reviewer's statements.

Yours very faithfully

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Secretary

Rev. S. John Thorpe

1. Thorpe's letter to the R. Geog. Soc. is WCP3652_L3555