WCP6793

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GRANIES,

ROSSHIRE, N.E.

Oct 19/[18]89

Dear Sir,

I have just received your letter of the 23d August, with enclosed communication for Nature.

It is needless to say that I am much interested in the course of your independent thought upon the important subject of Segregation, and glad to learn that upon the whole it is in agreement with my own. What you say in your letter for Nature makes me most desirous of seeing the elaborate paper referred to.

As I understand your request [2] with regard to forwarding the letter to Nature, I am only to do so in the event of your paper being published ^accepted by the Linnean Society. I will, therefore, wait to see, 1st whether Mr. Wallace sends it to the Society at all, and 2d whether the Council pass it for publication.

In the event of the paper not being published by the Society, I understand that you would have no objection to my reading the MS before it is returned to you.

I have written to the Linnean Society requesting immediate information as to [illeg.] of the Council, should the paper come before them. [3]

It is unquestionable that what is now most required with regard to our common views, is experimental verification. Therefore, when you come to England I sincerely hope that you will manage to meet me, so that we may exchange ideas as to the best ways of obtaining material for the experiments. In the summer time my address will be 18 Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park, London.

Yours very faithfully, G. J. Romanes. [signature]

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P.S.

I do not remember the previous letters in Nature to which your present one refers, nor have I in this place any means of looking them up. But I will do so on my return to London in December — G.J.R.