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IN 1886, William Bateson, then a young man of twenty-five years, set out for the Steppe of Asia to test two definite problems of evolution which had stirred his imagination, one distributional, the other adaptational. He summarised these aims in a letter written from Omsk to Sir Sidney Harmer towards the end of his journey on Sept. 8, 1887:
Letters from the Steppe: written in the Years 1886–1887.
By William Bateson. Edited, with an Introduction, by Beatrice Bateson. Pp. xvi + 222. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Biology. Nature 124, 533 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124533b0
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