Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
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Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
THH will be at Kensington.
He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.
Thinks Wallace memorial should not be presented to Lord Aberdare, nor to Owen, for signature, but will follow THH’s wishes.
Sends draft of the Wallace memorial.
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].
Has obtained signatures for the memorial. Wonders whether Gladstone would see a deputation and offers to write to Gladstone instead. Asks THH’s advice.
Sees no use in a deputation. Suggests CD send the memorial with a letter.
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