WCP3653

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15 May 1917

Dear Sir,¹

I thank you for your letter² of May 12, received this morning, and am sorry to learn that the notice of Dr. Wallace appeared to you to be ultra viris. 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 | [Arthur Robert Hinks]³ Secretary

Rev. S. John Thorpe

1. Thorpe, Samuel John (1865–1936). Baptist Minister. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

2. See WCP3652. https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3652

3. Hinks, Arthur Robert (1873-1945). British astronomer and geographer. Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. Editor of The Geographical Journal.