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Sorry to hear CD ill.
On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.
Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.
Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
Sends CD part two of his anatomical papers [Anatomical and physiological observations (1863) [part 1 (1854)]]; thinks CD may be interested in the paper dealing with variation in numbers of digits in man. Draws CD’s attention to another variation: the occurrence of a supra-condyloid process in the human arm.
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.