ABSTRACT
A common place for Romanes to meet Alfred Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection and a great supporter of Charles Darwin's views on heredity, was at meetings of the Linnaean Society. The Linnaean Society was founded in 1788 for anyone interested in biological matters and contained a large part of the botanical and zoological collections of the great Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who was the first to provide a rational and systematic way of classifying the members of the plant and animal kingdoms. Romanes knew that Wallace had in the past been a fervent supporter of Darwin's gemmule theory. Anyway Wallace had gone off the idea of gemmules. In Wallace's view, Francis Galton had suggested a much better theory of heredity.
