[Eugenio Rignano] Autograph Letter Signed to Prof. W.B. Crow, W.B. Crow, author of "Contributions to the Principles of Morphology ", giving reasons for declining an article.

2pp., 8vo, bifolium, some creasing, small closed tear, text clear and complete. He has just been able to read Crow's article 'the primitive forms of life' which he found interesting. But he declines to publish it because the length does not conform to their standard of 10 pages (being 20 pages). "I then propose to you to publish this article elsewhere (in what case, if you will have sent to me the reprint of it I will have resumed[ sic] it in our Review of Reviews); and to write for us another article; and not surpassing the 10 pages, for instance upon the subject: 'The unicellulars as the primitive forms fo life [title underlined]'. (50 reprints are given of each article) [...]"