Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Asks WBC for his vote and influence in favour of Albert Dicey at the Athenaeum balloting.
CD feels "as old as Methusalem".
Thanks for sympathy on death of Erasmus [Alvey Darwin].
Suggests rewording statement concerning source of CD’s views on evolution.
Recalls happy days at Penally.
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
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Describes his use of alcohol and tobacco.
Birthday congratulations.
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
Asks JT to support Albert Dicey for the Athenaeum.