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Pigeon Manuscript ; but, from one cause or another, I get on 

 very slowly. . . . 



This morning I got a letter from the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, announcing that I am elected a cor- 

 respondent. ... It shows that some Naturalists there do not 

 think me such a scientific profligate as many think me here. 

 My dear Lyell, yours gratefully, 



C. DARWIN. 



P.S. What a grand fact about the extinct stag's horn 

 worked by man ! 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [May I3th, 1860]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I return Henslow, which I was very 

 glad to see. How good of him to defend me.* I will write 

 and thank him. 



As you said you were curious to hear Thomson's f opinion, 

 I send his kind letter. He is evidently a strong opposer to us. 



Yours affectionately, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [May I5th, 1860]. 



How paltry it is in such men as X., Y. and Co. 



not reading your essay. It is incredibly paltry. J They 

 may all attack me to their hearts' content. I am got case- 

 hardened. As for the old fogies in Cambridge, it really signi- 

 fies nothing. I look at their attacks as a proof that our work 

 is worth the doing. It makes me resolve to buckle on my 



* Against Sedgwick's attack 

 before the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society. 



t Dr. Thomas Thomson, the 

 Indian botanist. He was a col- 

 laborateur in Hooker and Thom- 



son's ' Flora Indica,' 1855. 



% These remarks do not apply to 

 Dr. Harvey, who was, however, in 

 a somewhat similar position. See 

 P- 313. 



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