Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.
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Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.
Sends report on annual trade sale [missing]. New printings of Journal of researches and Descent are needed.
Wishes to defend CD from the attacks E. B. Pusey made in his sermon [see 11763]. Raises specific questions on CD’s theological views in order to refute Pusey’s accusations.
As an honorary professor of the Free Institution of Enseñanza [see 11321a] CD is sent the discourse pronounced by the Rector at their opening session with a number of the Ilustracion Española y Americana with portraits of the members of the executive committee of the Institucion.
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Encloses William Thomson’s report on GHD’s paper. Some of it was written in Rayleigh’s hand.
Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.