To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1st baronet Charles Stokes William John Hamilton Edward Stanley Richard Owen William Clift …
- … Charles Stokes, Charles Hamilton, W. J. Stanley, Edward Owen, Richard Clift, William …
- … Charles Stokes , F.R.S. , F.G.S. , and L.S. William J. Hamilton , Sec. Geol. Soc y . Edward Norwich , President of the Linnean Society, F.G.S. Richard Owen , …
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Richard Owen ; Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton seconded the nomination. The other members of the council of the Royal Society in 1863 were Benjamin Guy Babington , George Bowdler Buckton , Warren De la Rue , Douglas Strutt Galton , Robert Godwin-Austen, Joseph Henry Green , Joseph Dalton Hooker , James Clerk Maxwell , William Allen Miller , William Hallowes Miller , William Sharpey , Henry John Stephen Smith , George Gabriel Stokes , James Joseph Sylvester , Charles …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Phillips, John | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
