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Comments on the publication of several volumes.
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JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
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With 942 others petitions Queen Victoria for museums, art galleries and libraries to open on Sunday afternoons for the benefit of those who work during the week.
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Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".
Plans to visit Kew.
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
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Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
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CD will visit Kew on way home from E. W. Lane’s hydropathy establishment.
Birth of JL’s child.
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THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?
W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.
Thanks for his letter about Thomas Maclear's boy. Thought he was in the care of his uncle. Will do whatever JH thinks is best.
Glad CL plans trip to Amiens to investigate flints and post-glacial period.
Mentions support by Huxley, Hooker, and Lubbock at Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray also goes on fighting.
Likes article by William Hopkins ["Physical theories and the phenomena of life", Fraser’s Mag. 61 (1860): 739–52; 62 (1860): 74–90].
Comments on hybrids of hare and rabbit.