But he has treated it with such power and in such a philosophical and truth-seeking spirit, and illustrated it with such an amount of original and collated observation as fairly to have brought the subject within the bounds of rational scientific research.
I consider this great essay on genetic Biology to constitute a strong additional claim on behalf of Mr.Darwin for the Copley Medal.

(180/2.
The following letter (December 3rd, 1864), from Mr.Huxley to Sir J.D.
Hooker, is reprinted, by the kind permission of Mr.L.Huxley, from his father's "Life," I., page 255.

Sabine's address (from the "Reader") is given in the "Life and Letters," III., page 28.

In the "Proceedings of the Royal Society" the offending sentence is slightly modified.

It is said, in Huxley's "Life" (loc.cit., note), that the sentence which follows it was introduced to mitigate the effect:-- "I wish you had been at the anniversary meeting and dinner, because the latter was very pleasant, and the former, to me, very disagreeable.