--A.R.W.
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_76-1/2 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, W. October 1, 1867._
Dear Darwin,--I am sorry I was not in town when your note came. I took a
short trip to Scotland after the British Association Meeting, and went
up Ben Lawers. It was very cold and wet, and I could not find a
companion or I should have gone as far as Glen Roy.
My article on "Creation by Law," in reply to the Duke of Argyll and the
_North British_ reviewer, is in the present month's number of the
_Quarterly Journal of Science_. I cannot send you a copy because they do
not allow separate copies to be printed.
There is a nice illustration of the _predicted_ Madagascar moth and
_Angraecum sesquipedale_.
I shall be glad to know whether I have done it satisfactorily to you,
and hope you will not be so very sparing of criticism as you usually
are.
I hope you are getting on well with your great book. I hear a rumour
that we are to have _one_ vol. of it about Christmas.
I quite forget whether I told you that I have a little boy, now three
months old, and have named him Herbert Spencer (having had a brother
Herbert).
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