Sir P.Egerton, I daresay, would be strong for him.

You know Bell is out.

Now, my only doubt is, and I hope that you will consider this, that the natural sciences being weak on the Council, and (I fancy) the most powerful man in the Council, Col.
S[abine], being strong against Lindley, whether we should have any chance of succeeding.

It would be so easy to name some eminent man whose name would be well-known to all the physicists.

Would Lindley hear of and dislike being proposed for the Copley and not succeeding?
Would it not be better on this view to propose him for the Royal?
Do think of this.