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Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

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Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.

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Returns snuff box.

Sends a microscope for repair.

Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.

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Will be glad to see recipient and Mr Morris at Down the following day.

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CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

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CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.

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Hopes to meet with museum committee after 11 o’clock next day.

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Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.

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"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".

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Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.

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Asks De la Beche about variation among domesticated animals in Jamaica.

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CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.

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CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.

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Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].

Plans to visit Shrewsbury.

Describes behaviour of William Darwin.

Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.

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Family news from Shrewsbury.

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News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.

Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.

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Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].

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Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.

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The fourth number of part four is now published; the Smith, Elder & Co. account is presented.

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Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.

Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.