Trans." for which the medal had been awarded.

But I doubt, with an opposing faction, whether this would be considered enough, for I believe real scientific merit is not thought enough, without the person is generally well known.

Now I want to hear what you deliberately think on this head: it would be bad to get him proposed and then rejected; and Owen is very powerful.
LETTER 46.

TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down [1856].
I have got the Lectures, and have read them.