Broadstone, Wimborne
August 5th. 1904
My dear Poulton
Thanks for note of Mrs. Hayward which I return. What a miserable abortion of a theory is "Mutation", which the Americans now seem to be taking up in place of Lamarckism "superseded". Any thing rather than Darwinism!
I am glad Mr Dixey shows it up so well in this week’s "Nature", but too mildly!
Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
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Broadstone, Wimborne
August 5, 1904
My dear Poulton,— ... What a miserable abortion of a theory is "Mutation," which the Americans now seem to be taking up in place of Lamarckism, "superseded." Anything rather than Darwinism! I am glad Dr. F. A. Dixey1 shows it up so well in this week's Nature,2 but too mildly!—Yours very truly,
Alfred R. Wallace
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