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Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.

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Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].

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Calls CD’s attention to an article by Paul Janet.

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Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.

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Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.

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Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.

Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.

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Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.

Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.

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CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.

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Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.

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Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].

Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.

Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.

Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].

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Encloses list of CD’s publications.

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Obliged for tidings about CD [Copley Medal].

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Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.

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Discusses the affairs of the late Edward Evans for whom CD and EAD are trustees.

Has got CD’s [Copley] Medal, "it is rather ugly to look at, & too light to turn into candlesticks".

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Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

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Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.

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Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.

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HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.

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Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].

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Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.