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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 April 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Discusses the arrangements being made to present a gift to Huxley [see 8872].
William Spottiswoode was not at home, but JT sought out Herbert Spencer. Spencer will come with JT to see CD [about the Huxley fund].
CD will write to William Spottiswoode about the fund for Huxley. CD is raising his subscription to £300. "We have done a good day’s work … [it] gives me a higher opinion of human nature than I had before, though I am not one of those who think lowly of mankind."