My Dear Sir,

We have a Natural History Society here of about 300 members and which after a struggling existence for nearly 20 years is blooming into something worthy of so large a town.² I am President and there is amongst us a numerous band of your disciples. I should very much like to have your permission to add your name to our list of Honorary Members, not that this would be any compliment to you, but that the presence of your name in our list would add to our importance.

I sent you a little attempt of mine the other day, an effort to apply Evolution to moral life.³ Do you think that I have been in any way successful?

I have not read Rudinger’s book yet, I have been so busy with other matters but I shall return it as soon as I have.⁴ I intend going into the polydactytism question now.⁵ I have had a talk with D^r Burdon Sanderson⁶ about it and he has given me a valuable hint.

Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait