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Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.

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"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.

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Has told Murray to send Origin to HF. "Lord, how savage you will be, if you read it, and how you will long to crucify me alive."

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Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.

CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".

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Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.

Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.

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Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.

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Has written down what he gathered from HF on Tibetan dogs. Would welcome a few more details at any time, as he knows of nothing parallel to it.

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Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?

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[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.

Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.

Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.

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Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.

Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].

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Arranges a time for visiting HF.

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Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.

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If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.

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Good of HF to tell him about Brazilian beast. So intermediate a form is "very glorious". Must assume it is very old.

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Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.

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Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?

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Sends address.

Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.

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Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]

and sends queries on silkworms.

A bed is ready any time HF will come.

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Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.

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Suggests HF investigate hippopotamus tooth.

Has heard HF is very antagonistic to his views on species. Cannot believe a false theory would explain so many classes of facts.