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[1]¹

20 Allen House

Allen Street

Kensington

London

W

May 25. 1911

Dear Sir

I venture to send you a copy of a book compiled from MSS left unpublished when my husband died. He would, I know, have sent you his book, had he lived to bring it out. [2] He greatly valued the privilege of knowing you & of visiting you in your Parkstone home. He wrote to you, also, I know, about some of the views brought forward in this book. They were founded upon his own research work in different lines, though some [3] of them are somewhat unusual & perhaps startling, he hoped that his fellow biologists would give them fair consideration &, more especially, that some of the younger generation might be led to test them in their own work.

You may not have heard that my husband [4] died two years ago, his over-active brain being actually worn out. It has been a great consolation to me to edit his work to the best of my ability.

Hoping that you may be interested in the book,

I am, dear Sir, | Y[ou]rs faithfully | M. Bernard [signature]

Dr A R Wallace.