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the author was, and feeling that it might help him 

 to support his views if he had the latest scientific 

 views on the subject before him, I took the liberty 

 of penning him the article which appeared in my 

 name under that of Mr. Wade's. 



"Now, far be it from me to claim for myself the 

 honor of having brought into the world the theory 

 which I advanced in that communication as the 

 answer to the oft-asked question, how do you ac- 

 count for the phenomenon? Who put forward the 

 theory, or how it first started, I am unable to say, 

 but I found on talking the matter over with some 

 of our most noted physiologists and biologists that 

 the theory I put forward was not only the general 

 belief as to the cause of the phenomenon but in their 

 opinion the only possible answer to the question. 



"It will therefore be seen that the theory among 

 scientific men is a general one, and where I have 

 added to it is to be found in the views I express 

 when I observe that the modification to be found 

 in the produce of a subsequent sire is generally in 

 that portion of the animal frame which is derived 

 from the epiblast. I admit, howe\^r, that it is also 

 to be noted in the other portions of the blastoderm. 



"Following the publication of your Christmas 

 number, on the 2nd of January, there appeared in 

 your columns a reply to it from the pen of Dr. 



