Vol XXXI , A 7 



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CORRESPONDENCE 

 NaturaiiBtB ami 'Concealing Coloration.' 



Editor "i 'The \ ! 



/>"" ■ a I bereb periodical warning to natu 



tbeir uppo (, l oppo ition to my << called id< nothing bul a 



'/i mm. i kepi alivi olel ranee. Any of the con of intel- 



lect ual pei on who hav< pent i laugh to 



of the average naturalist' attitude aboul il and many ol them are a ton- 

 hal oo natural hi tor} in titutionha committee 



to inve tigate thi immen i and revolutionai y discovery 1 1 i absolute ly 

 Lmpo ible for any one to eewhal [am ad continue to doub 



ignificanci The discovery that thou peci( in all ordei 



i ach, no mal t< happen to look el i iper humanly p< i 



pictun of the verj background again I which i ; would apparently i 

 help them nol to show I Do naturali fce really fancj thai when a pr< 



• .I nal ure, a pid ure-maker, tell i hem that I 

 copies, the phenomenon ii nol worth investigating? Moreover il isnol an 

 individual artist thai tell them this, bul a repre entative body of them, 

 compo ed of all the paintei to whom I have hown the things M 

 naturalisl , feeling forced to believe thai I am righl aboul these wonderful 

 copii dmitted il bul di agreed about the deduction. Here 



their position become hopeh ill not come and witm 



thej mu i take my word thai th< practically the whole animal 



kingdom, all bul the peci< thai neither hunl nor are hunted; andii 

 i o, it is ul terly absurd to try to '■■•ill il accident . 



Abboti II. Thayeb 

 Monadnock, \. H., 

 June 12, 1913. 



