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should find my soul too dried up to appreciate it as in old 

 days ; and then I should feel very flat, for it is a horrid bore 

 to feel as I constantly do, that I am a withered leaf for 

 every subject except Science. It sometimes makes me hate 

 Science, though God knows I ought to be thankful for such 

 a perennial interest, which makes me forget for some hours 

 every day my accursed stomach.' l 



1869. ' I have been as yet in a very poor way ; it seems 

 as soon as the stimulus of mental work stops, my whole 

 strength gives way.' 2 



1876. ' and then home to work, which is my sole 

 pleasure in life.' 3 



1878. ' Thank Heaven, we return home on Thursday, 

 and I shall be able to go on with my humdrum work, and 

 tliat makes me forget my daily discomfort.' 4 



APPENDIX D 



DE VEIES'S ' FLUCTUATIONS ' HEKEDITAKY AC- 

 CORDING TO DE VKIES, NON-TRANSMISSIBLE 

 ACCORDING TO BATESON AND PUNNETT 



SINCE the note on p. 49 was written I have 

 had the opportunity of reading the whole of the 

 Presidential Address to the Zoological Section at 

 Winnipeg, a copy having been kindly sent to me 

 by my friend Dr. Shipley. I find that the account 

 of fluctuations which is so diametrically opposed 

 to that given by the author of this term in its 

 technical sense, is adopted from Mr. R C. Punnett's 

 little work Mendelism (2nd edit., Cambridge, 1907), 

 a fact omitted from the necessarily abridged 



1 To J. D. Hooker, June 17. Life and Letters, iii. 92. 

 To J. D. Hooker, June 22. Life and Letters, iii. 106. 

 8 To G. J. Romanes, May 29. More Letters, L 364. 

 4 To G. J. Romanes, Aug. 20. More Letters, ii. 48. 



