Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
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Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Informs HWB of arrangements for signing the memorial to W. E. Gladstone [for a civil pension for Wallace]. CD has got Duke of Argyll to write to Gladstone in favour of it.
Asks HWB to sign the memorial, possibly with official title, and then to pass it quickly to Hooker.
Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.
Requests JSBS sign certificate for [Francis Darwin’s] candidacy [for Royal Society].