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of your opinion in a matter with which you are not so 

 fully acquainted as myself should lay me under any 

 obligation to be led by it, after mature consideration 

 seemed to show that the best course for me to follow 

 was the one which I took. 



Hoping soon to see you, I remain, very sincerely 

 yours, 



Geo. J. Eomanes. 



P.S. — I forgot to say that I acted upon your sug- 

 gestion about the Linnean, and have been proposed 

 by Darwin, Hooker, and Huxley. 



From C. Darwin to G. J. Romanes. 



Down, Beckenham, Kent : July 12, 1875. 



I am correcting a second edition of ' Var. under 

 Dom.,' and find that I must do it pretty fully. There- 

 fore I give a short abstract of potato graft hybrids, 

 and I want to know whether I did not send you a 

 reference about beet. Did you look to this, and can 

 you tell me anything about it ? I hope with all my 

 heart that you are getting on pretty well with your 

 experiments ; I have been led to think a good deal on 

 the subject, and am convinced of its high importance, 

 though it will take years of hammering before physio- 

 logists will admit that the sexual organs only collect 

 the generative elements. 



The edition will be published in November, and 

 then you will see all that I have collected, but I 

 believe that you saw all the more important cases. 

 The case of vine in ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' which I 



