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revert to its ancestral character. When retrans- 

 planted to its natural environment, much would 

 follow from result of such an experiment as regards 

 Weismannism. 



Yours very and always truly, 



G. J. Eomanes. 



P.S. — Of course in saying 'on common areas, 

 sexual differentiation is the only means of securing 

 the isolation,' I did not include self -fertilising plants 

 — any more, e.g. than insect-fertilising where changes 

 in the instincts of insects may cause sexual isola- 

 tion. 



I leave for Oxford to-morrow. 



These months were made very happy to him by 

 the fact that three friends, Mrs. and Miss Church 

 and the Eev. B. C. Moberly, 1 were staying in the 

 same hotel. He often alludes in his letters to the 

 intense pleasure these friends gave him, and speaks of 

 how much he owed to their tenderness and sympathy, 

 and to their perception when to come and when to 

 stay away. 



Many books were heard and read by him. Mr. 

 Gore's Bampton Lectures were read aloud to him, 

 and he liked them even better than when he heard 

 them preached. Several other theological books were 

 read, and of all these the one which bears marks of 

 most careful study is Pascal's ' Pensees.' He used 

 Mr. C. Kegan Paul's translation. The copy he had 

 at Costebelle, which used to lie by his bedside, is 

 marked and annotated. It is the last book he 



1 "Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford. 



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