Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
The Diamond Jubilee.—The Queen and
Oakum Picking for Pregnant Women
Prisoners and Paupers.
(S534a: 1897)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A short letter to the Editor from H. R. G. Gogay containing remarks by Wallace concerning evidence for prenatal impression. Printed on page 6 of the 18 April 1897 issue of The Weekly Times and Echo (London.). To link directly to this page, connect with: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S534A.htm
To the Editor of the "Weekly Times & Echo."
Sir,--Could you let me say, anent the petition that was presented to the Queen by the Home Secretary on the 9th Feb. last on the above subject, I have received the following from Professor Alfred Russel Wallace:--
"Parkstone, Dorset, 8th April, 1897.
"Dear Sir,--I have lately received evidence of the influence of the state of the mother during gestation on the character of the child, and if this is so, it is nothing less than a crime, wilfully, to subject prospective mothers to bad influences. In last edition of "Chamber's Cyclopaedia," p. 733 (art deformities), you will find it stated that there is now evidence that pre-natal impressions on the mother do produce physical deformities. --Believe me, yours very truly, "Alfred R. Wallace."
The italics are Professor Wallace's.
If some member would only move for a Royal Commission on the Poor Law, so that witnesses might be examined on oath, what a revelation of waste, wickedness, and woe would there not be? The Social Revolution would not be far off after this! --Yours, &c.,
H. R. G. Gogay.
April 12, 1897.
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