The Dell, Grays, Essex
March 3rd. 1876
Dear. Mr. Galton1
I return your paper signed. It is one excellent proposal.
I must take the opportunity of mentioning how immensely I was please & interested with your last paper in the Anthop[ology] Journal. Your "Theory of Heredity" seems to me most ingenious & a decided improvement on Darwin’s, it gets over some of the great difficulties & the enormous controversies of his Pangenesis.
Your paper on twins is [2] also wondrously suggestive.
Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
F. Galton Esq.
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The Dell, Grays, Essex. March 3rd, 1876.
Dear Mr Galton, I return your paper signed [on a theory of the germ-plasm]. It is an excellent proposal. I must take the opportunity of mentioning how immensely I was pleased and interested with your last papers in the Anthrop. Journal. Your 'Theory of Heredity' seems to me most ingenious and a decided improvement on Darwin's, as it gets over some of the great difficulties of the cumbrousness of his Pangenesis. Your paper on Twins is also wondrously suggestive.
Believe me, Yours very faithfully, Alfred R. Wallace.
F. Galton, Esq.
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