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well to call Forsyth's attention to my note at the end of the article in question, and to your articles which gave rise to it, etc., asking him if necessary, to see me and talk it over, then I should be very glad to do so. If he were to agree with you, it would, of course, carry due weight. Perhaps he should be warned that his intervention would involve the disagreeable task of disagreeing with one of us! I repeat, however, that I think it would be unwise to attach definite pledges to such a reference.
Of course there are other disputable questions in the body of my article. As to them I can only say that I believe that the truth will slowly emerge by a process akin to the survival of the fittest.
Again thanking you for your letter,
Your sincerely,
[signed]Leonard Darwin
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