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such warning. Or is there any point about it which 

 I do not understand ? 



When is your next book coming out ? I should 

 like you to read my reply to Wallace before it does. 

 Also my re-statement of physiological selection, with 

 discussion on the principles of Segregation and 

 Divergence. I hope the whole will be in type before 

 November. Can you wait till then, or shall I send 

 type-written MSS.? 



Yours very sincerely, 



GEORGE J. EOMANES. 



P.S. Talking about hon. degrees the last time I 

 saw you reminded me but something again put it 

 out of my head that I had been wondering why 

 Oxford or Cambridge does not offer one to F. Galton. 

 Could you start a movement in that direction ? . . . 



I am getting so convinced about physiological 

 selection, that I do not care what is said at random, 

 or without understanding the theory. 



Later in the autumn he writes : 



To Mrs. Romanes. 



I hope to find letters from Ober Ammergau when 

 I return to Geanies, with a dozen bottles of sulphur 

 water and several pounds of heather honey. Went 

 yesterday to see a waterfall, which was wonderfully 

 beautiful ; on the way back met a pony with half a 

 trap, and afterwards came on the other half with its 



previous occupants, Lord and Lady , cut about 



the face, but not seriously hurt, There is an awful 



