My dear Darwin

I have just seen Lionel Beale’s, not nicely conceived, letter in ‘Nature’ on Pangenesis and write at once to you, lest you should imagine that I in any way share the animus of the letter.¹

I do not know him, at least, I have, perhaps twice, only, had occasion to converse with him,—& what he says, certainly does not express my own opinion as expressed eleswhere. or to others.— & I should not feel easy, if I did not disavow all share in it, to you.

Yours very sincerely | Francis Galton

My new experiments are not hopeful—alas!

I hope Pangenesis will get well discussed now.