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IT is to be regretted that Dr. Romanes has not written anything which can be considered as a reply to my letter. Although Prof. Weismann's essays, to which I referred, are certainly “two of the most notorious essays in the recent literature of Darwinism,” it is nevertheless equally certain that a large and important part of their contents is devoted to the consideration of the causes of variation. This being the case, I may safely leave the evidence in support of the statement in my first letter to anyone who will take the trouble to read p. 841 of the June number of the Contemporary Review. As it is probable that many people have already read the article in question, and that others may be induced to do so as a result of this correspondence, I think that on this account it may be worth while for Dr. Romanes to notice the criticism, and if possible to show that his remark about Prof. Weismann is intended to bear some other than its obvious meaning.
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POULTON, E. Lamarckism versus Darwinism. Nature 38, 388 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038388b0
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