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It would be impossible and useless for ARW to promise any help and advice with Poulton's proposed periodical. Criticisms of the journal Nature. About his Royal Institution lecture. Has been ill.
About the Copley medal. ARW will not have his name put on something that he hasn't taken part in. Comments on recent inaccurate articles. Believer in inspiration. "All my best ideas have come to me suddenly." Importance of finding a good editor for the journal.
Doctor's Douglas Wood's report on William's health; sending a cheque; his own health improving; outline of lecture (for the Royal Institution) done, title to be The World of Life: As Visualised and Interpreted by Darwinism; wooden fence almost finished; proofs of index to Spruce book (Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes by Richard Spruce, ed. and condensed by ARW, Dec. 1908) only just arrived, six weeks after MS sent, so publication of book may be delayed; reading The Yellow Room, in the style of Gaborian, not as good as Sherlock Holmes; has decided O.M. means "Old Man"; sending book [My Life] to Benham today.
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Has had a new idea for a lecture, which will put Darwinism in a new light and leave mutationism nowhere.
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Thanks for congratulations. Glad to hear he is coming to this part of the world again.
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Would like to have nearest available estimate of the total number of described, or known, Coleoptera - or those in the Museum. Also from Mr Kirby or who now is in charge of Lepidoptera, approximate number of special in that order - for lecture at the Royal Institution, hence approximation will be sufficient.
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Asking to be excused attendance at the investiture of the Order of Merit at Buckingham Palace on 12 December, on the grounds of age and delicate health. Annotated in [ARW's hand] "copy sent".
Arranging for Strang to visit and make a portrait of ARW in connection to him being awarded the Order of Merit.
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