Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
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Thanks for gift of Spirit of nature (1880).
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
CD is familiar with cases of prepotency that are so strong that a cross has no effect.
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.
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.