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CHAPTER 1
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It's dogged as does it.

It ain't thinking about it." (Giles Hoggett, the old Brickmaker, in "The Last Chronicle of Barset," Volume II., 1867, page 188.))--and I have often and often thought that this is the motto for every scientific worker.

I am sure it is yours--if you do not give up pangenesis with wicked imprecations.
By the way, G.Jager has brought out in "Kosmos" a chemical sort of pangenesis bearing chiefly on inheritance.

(281/7.

Several papers by Jager on "Inheritance" were published in the first volume of "Kosmos," 1877.) I cannot conceive why I have not offered my garden for your experiments.
I would attend to the plants, as far as mere care goes, with pleasure; but Down is an awkward place to reach.
Would it be worth while to try if the "Fortnightly" would republish it [i.e.the lecture]?
LETTER 282.


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