Moreover, if Lindley is not proposed for the Royal, I fear both Royal medals would go [to] physicists; for I, for one, should not like to propose another zoologist, though Hancock would be a very good man, and I fancy there would be a feeling against medals to two botanists.
But for whatever Lindley is proposed, I will do my best.

We will talk this over here.
LETTER 45.

TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, May 9th [1856].
...With respect to Huxley, I was on the point of speaking to Crawford and Strezlecki (who will be on Committee of the Athenaeum) when I bethought me of how Owen would look and what he would say.

Cannot you fancy him, with slow and gentle voice, asking "Will Mr.Crawford tell me what Mr.Huxley has done, deserving this honour; I only know that he differs from, and disputes the authority of Cuvier, Ehrenberg, and Agassiz as of no weight at all." And when I began to tell Mr.Crawford what to say, I was puzzled, and could refer him only to some excellent papers in the "Phil.