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WCP3980

Letter (WCP3980.3921)

[1]

30 Cumberland Road,

Kew.

24th. Jany. 1911.

My Dear Meldola,1

I am very sorry indeed to hear you are on the sick list and hope you will soon shake off the troublesome infliction.

My letter is merely responsive to your appeal & supplementary to Thiselton Dyer's2[.]

Yes! It is painful reading those last chapters of A.R.W.!3 How C.D.4 would have grieved over them, for he [2] really loved A.R.W. But he would have sadly said "another of my friends making a fool of himself by entering on speculative writing after 60 years of age."

Huxley5 would have wanted his "strangulation" remedy to be applied.

I will do my best to repudiate, on the part of science, all this nonsense — without giving pain to the old man,

Yours very faithfully, | John W. Judd6 [signature]

1
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
2
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner (1843-1928). Leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1910. The world of life: a manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose. London: Chapman & Hall.
4
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
5
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). British biologist and author, known as "Darwin's Bulldog".
6
Judd, John Wesley (1840-1916). President of the Geological Society (1886-1888). Professor of geology at the Royal School of Mines (1876-1905).

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3980.3921)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-04-30] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-04-30] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3980,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3980