WCP6759

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77 A. Grove Lane

Dennwood Hill

London S. E.

March 3 1905.

Dear Alfred Russell Wallace

Dear Sir!

I am sending to your address for [illeg.] Post a copy of my work on Darwinian Fallacies just recently issued. This you will be good enough to accept in the light of a direct Challenge to you, as one of the discourses[?] of the theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection, to maintain such theory against the attack [illeg.] made by some in the work referred to.

If you do not reply to the work in question [illeg.] a [illeg.] able him, I shall take it that you have no reply, and shall therefore feel at liberty to publish this Challenge to the world.

Seeing that your reputation as a Scientist and as an honest man is at stake. I trust you will give this matter your earnest and early attention

Yours faithfully | Jn of Coulley [signature]