To Hugh Falconer 4 November [1864]
Summary
[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.
Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.
Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4656 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … the converts to CD’s theory. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 4. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] . CD refers …
- … from Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey, 25 October 1864 . See letter …
- … Copley Medal. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 2. See also letter …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 7. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 …
- … Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 3. CD refers to Gaspard Auguste Brullé . See letter …
From Hugh Falconer 10 November [1864]
Summary
Is sure that any of CD’s friends would be proud to accept the medal on his behalf.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4669 |
From George Busk 1 December 1864
Summary
Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4689 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 . …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 and n. 3). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 …
- … Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 . CD refers to Edward Sabine and the publication in the Reader , 3 December 1864, pp. 708–9, of his anniversary address delivered at the Royal Society of London (see letter …
To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864]
Summary
Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4664 |
From Hugh Falconer 7 November [1864]
Summary
Hopes CD will be able to receive the Copley Medal in person. HF sees it as doubly significant in recognising CD’s work and as a protest against the profession of religious as opposed to scientific faith.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4662 |
From Ernst Haeckel 2 January 1864
Summary
Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].
Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4377 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1864]
Summary
CD’s Lythrum paper has given him as much satisfaction as working out complemental males in cirripedes.
Response to award of Copley Medal.
Letters from Germany and France support natural selection.
Now that climbing plants are done, CD asks for Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 254a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4682 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
To Edward Sabine 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.
CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 388) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4694 |
From T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes 8 December 1864
Summary
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4706 |
From T. H. Huxley 4 November 1864
Summary
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4655 |
From T. H. Huxley to J. D. Hooker 3 December 1864
Summary
His suspicions regarding [Edward] Sabine’s treatment of CD were justified by the Anniversary Address. THH, [George] Busk, and [Hugh] Falconer insisted on a more accurate account of the grounds on which the Copley Medal was awarded to CD.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 129–30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4691F |
From John Lubbock 20 December 1864
Summary
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4719 |
From Charles Lyell 4 November 1864
Summary
Delighted to hear that CD was awarded Copley Medal. Important because award by chartered institution acts on outsiders and helps increase stock of moral courage.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4658 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
From G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley 8 December 1864
Summary
Corrects a minor error in his last letter.
Urges THH to return proofs of his paper to Royal Society. Some authors are more ready to come down on reviewers and secretary for delay than to get on with their own proofs.
| Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 87–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4709 |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
From Hermann Kindt 11 October 1864
Summary
Requests photograph.
| Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4632 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (3) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (5) |
