WCP4927

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Parkstone, Dorset.

April 12th. 1892

Dear Prof. Geddes

I have no intention of coming to the Brit.[ish] Association this year; and I have (probably) given up lecturing altogether. It never suited me, nor I it. I prefer writing.

Mr. Arthur Thompson was so good as to send me his "Outlines of Zoology" which seems to me very good & clear.

I do not know whether you have time to read rather big speculative books, if you have [2] try Mr. A. J. Bell’s "Why does man exist?" (Isbister & Co) I was immensely pleased with it. It is, as appears to me, an earnest attempt to deduce, logically, from the ascertained facts of physiology & morphology ^&c., something of the essential nature of man & of the universe. It is freshly & clearly written, & the author does not shirk the logical results of the facts of nature.

Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]