There seems to be so much parallelism in the kind of variation from my experiment, which was certainly a cross, and what Mr.Masters has observed, that I cannot help suspecting that his peas were crossed by bees, which I have seen well dusted with the pollen of the sweet pea; but then I wish this, and how hard it is to prevent one's wish biassing one's judgment! I was struck with your remark about the Compositae, etc.

I do not see that it bears much against me, and whether it does or not is of course of not the slightest importance.

Although I fully agree that no definition can be drawn between monstrosities and slight variations (such as my theory requires), yet I suspect there is some distinction.
Some facts lead me to think that monstrosities supervene generally at an early age; and after attending to the subject I have great doubts whether species in a state of nature ever become modified by such sudden jumps as would result from the Natural Selection of monstrosities.

You cannot do me a greater service than by pointing out errors.

I sincerely hope that your work on monstrosities (99/1.