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[Address illegible]

Sep 3^rd/[18]89

Dear M^r. Gulick,

I have read your <MS> papers with the greatest interest. They seem to me most admirable; and although the leading English biologists are not hopeful material to conf convert, no doubt the rising generation will prove better able to distinguish the fact that 2 + 2 = 4. [2]

I do not know whether you have ever written to Nature in reply to Wallace's book on "Darwinism", but the Editor told me that he would be quite ready to publish anything of the kind, if not "inordinate as to length."

I have just returned from Switzerland, where I have been planting an Alpine garden, [3] 500 feet above the sea, with the object of trying experiments on "segregate fecundity" between mostly allied species growing in separated areas. I hope to find less sterility in such cases than among nearly allied species growing in common areas. From experiments already made on wild varieties of English pansies, it appears that they are all absolutely sterile with one another. [4]

I suppose you understand that your papers to the Linnean Society cannot be referred for acceptance till November.

Yours very truly,

G. J. Romanes [signature]