Dear Sir,

I have now the pleasure of submitting to you my first years experiments with the two Russian wheats you were good enough to send me last April.¹ You will see that as yet I have found no alteration taking place on the forms of these wheats; and that I think the explanation of the observed change of crop is to be found in that principle of your great Theory by which the strongest and most fertile push aside the weaker and less fertile—

If you approve of the publication of the report, with any alterations you may be kind enough to make, the suggestion of the best medium would be a much esteemed obligement. I am so much out of the world here.²

Of course I intend going on with the experiment this season, using the seed of my own crop and endeavouring to take some measures against the red rust.³ I do not think that any of the seeds I planted in autumn have ever come through the ground; and as the ⁠⟨⁠s⁠⟩⁠now is still lying several inches deep, I have not got another trial made—

I may mention that I did not think it necessary to write to Dr. Asher, the matter being put before me in your letter in such a way as to give all the information I thought required.⁴

I am | Dear Sir, | yours very truly, | A. Stephen Wilson.