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[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.

Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.

Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.

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HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.

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Health.

Is sending information about Timor fossils to be forwarded to Hugh Falconer.

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"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.

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Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.

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Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.

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Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.

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Comments on his elephant paper

and CD’s observations on dimorphism in Melastomataceae.

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Is sure that any of CD’s friends would be proud to accept the medal on his behalf.

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Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.

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Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.

Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].

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Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.

Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.

Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.

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HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.

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If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.

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His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.

Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".

Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.

Shares HF’s anger at Owen.

He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].

Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.

Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.

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Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.

CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".

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Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.

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Answers CD’s query on the free digits of Archaeopteryx.

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Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?

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Hopes CD will be able to receive the Copley Medal in person. HF sees it as doubly significant in recognising CD’s work and as a protest against the profession of religious as opposed to scientific faith.