[40] "Shall we have Common Sense? Some Reeeat Lectures." By George W.
Sleeper. Boston, 1849.
[41] _See_ footnote to preceding letter. The book formed the subject of
Prof. Poulton's Presidential Addresses (May 24, 1913, and May 25, 1914)
to the Linnean Society (_Proceedings_, 1912-13, p. 26, and 1913-14, p.
23). The above letter is in part quoted in the former address.
[42] This letter relates to evidences, favourable to Sleeper, which had
not at the time been critically examined, but broke down when carefully
scrutinised. _See_ Prof. Poulton's address to the Linnean Society, May
25, 1914 (_Proc_., 1913-14, p. 23).
[43] For many years he was Examiner in Physiography at South Kensington.
[44] _See_ footnote on p. 109.
[45] For letters from Wallace describing Col. Legge's visit with the
Order, _see_ pp. 128 and 224.
[46] The present Lord Rothschild.
[47] On his ninetieth birthday.
[48] See his book, "Land Nationalisation, its Necessity and its Aims"
(1882).
[49] Although this book was his last published work, it was written
before "Social Environment and Moral Progress." He handed me the MS. a
few months before his death.--The Editor.
[50] A full account of this scheme is given in his "Studies, Scientific
and Social," chap. xxvi.
[51] "My Life," ii. 237-8
[52] Advocating Eugenics and the segregation of the unfit.
[53] Hon. Sec. of the Federated Trades and Labour Council, Bournemouth.
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