From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … was a member of the council of the Royal Society (see letter from E. A. Darwin, 9 …
- … see Royal Society Council minutes, 1863, and Lyons 1944 , pp. 272–5). See also letter …
- … letter from E. A. Darwin, 9 November [1863] ). On 5 November 1863, the council of the Royal Society …
- … Royal Society Council minutes, 11 June 1863). The reference is to George Bentham’s presidential address to the Linnean Society of London on 25 May 1863, in which Bentham discussed the reception of Origin by the international scientific community ( Bentham 1863 ). For CD’s reaction to the address, see the letter …
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1880
Summary
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 146–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12873 |
To Edward Sabine 5 November [1864]
Summary
Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
Date: | 5 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Glenbow Archives, Calgary (M 4843, file 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4660 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 31–5). No letter of acknowledgement to the Council of the Royal Society has been found. …
- … Letter from Edward Sabine, 3 November 1864 . CD may refer to an informal policy of the Royal Society of London to award the Copley Medal to practitioners of the natural and physical sciences in alternate years. The policy seems to have been followed with few exceptions after a controversy over the distribution of the Royal Medals in 1849 and 1850. In 1850, the Council of …
To the Secretary, Royal Society 28 September 1858
Summary
Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 28 Sept 1858 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2330 |
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of natural history on the Royal Society council in a letter to J. D. Hooker, [31 …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). CD is listed as one of Haast’s proposers for the fellowship of the Royal Society in 1867 ( Royal Society of London archives, EC/1867/06). For a list of the twenty-one members who served on the Royal Society council …
From J. D. Hooker 24 December 1865
Summary
Oliver says H. E. Baillon found stamens on female flowers of Coelebogyne, but JDH and many botanists have never found any stamens.
Lyell wants to propose JDH for Copley Medal.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4955 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … of botanists on the Royal Society council, see also the letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 and …
- … council of the Royal Society for 1866 (Royal Society, council minutes, 1 November 1865). CD’s annotations are notes for his letter …
- … letter to Hooker of 22 December [1865] . Charles Lyell had written to the secretary of the Royal Society of London , William Sharpey , about the possibility of nominating Hooker for the Copley Medal in 1866; Lyell was concerned about the poor representation of botany on the society’s council, …
From G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley 7 December 1864
Summary
It is improbable that he changed the wording of Sabine’s address without his noticing. Proceeds to defend the passage by quoting the rules of the award of the Copley Medal and the Royal Society Council’s action in this case, which is accurately presented in the wording of the award.
Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 81–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4704 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … in the Council minutes (Royal Society, Council minutes, 3 November 1864). See also letter …
- … by Hugh Falconer (Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). In his letter to the …
- … the Royal Society, William Sharpey , 25 October 1864, Falconer specifically mentioned Origin , under the heading of ‘genetic biology’, as a reason to award CD the Copley Medal. In his letter of 3 November 186[4] , reporting the Council’ …
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1864]
Summary
Sends Nepenthes laevis.
Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.
W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4623 |
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 |
To Samuel Birch [12 March 1856]
Summary
Arranges an appointment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | [12 Mar 1856] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1489) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841A |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 18 July 1856
Summary
Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s paper on Foraminifera, pt 2, be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 547–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 18 July 1856 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1930 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1785 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 29 November, the day of the Royal Society’s council meeting. See letter to the Gardeners’ …
- … council of the Royal Society in 1855 and 1856. The anniversary of the society was celebrated on Friday, 30 November 1855 ( Athenæum , no. 1466, 1 December 1855, p. 1403). Council meetings were held on Thursdays. The minutes indicate that CD did not attend the meeting on 29 November. See also letter …
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
From T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes 6 December 1864
Summary
He is certain he heard "expressly excluded" [of Origin from consideration in Royal Society award of Copley Medal]. Believes GGS may have inadvertently substituted "excluded" for "omitted". THH then submits his reasons for objecting to the passage as a whole even with the word "omitted".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1383) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4702 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 April [1855]
Summary
Thomas Bell thinks John Lindley superior for Royal Society Medal. CD agrees, but demurs at Medal going to same branch of science two years in succession.
Perplexed about Albany Hancock’s qualifications compared with J. O. Westwood’s.
Death of H. De la Beche.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1668 |
From E. A. Darwin [before 30 November 1864]
Summary
Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4688 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Physiology’ (Royal Society, Council minutes, 3 November 1864). In his letter of 3 …
- … Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). Lyell made a speech at the anniversary dinner on 30 November 1864. In his letter …
- … Council had not failed to stand up for Origin. Sabine’s anniversary address, delivered at the Royal Society on 30 November 1864, said that Origin was not among the publications considered as grounds for the award. A controversy arose over Sabine’s remarks on Origin , and whether they accurately represented the views of the Council (see letter …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Council of the Royal Society had awarded the Copley Medal to CD. Sabine received a notice of CD’s botanical researches from Hooker ( letter …
- … Council, or President’ ( Record of the Royal Society of London , pp. 310, 314). See letter …
- … letter from T. H. Huxley to G. G. Stokes, 6 December 1864 ). The Royal Society statutes of 1847 stipulate that the minutes of all Council …
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
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 |
letter | (128) |
Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
Hooker, J. D. | (22) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
Falconer, Hugh | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Royal Society of London | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (117) |
Hooker, J. D. | (52) |
Huxley, T. H. | (13) |
Darwin, E. A. | (7) |
Falconer, Hugh | (7) |
George Douglas Campbell in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …