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: 2 hits
From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
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
- … Phillips’s recollections of his friendship with Sedgwick, see Phillips 1873 . See also Secord 1986 , pp. 295–6. Sabine refers to Orchids and Origin. At the 11 June 1863 meeting of the Royal Society council, John Lubbock nominated CD for the Copley Medal, and William Benjamin Carpenter seconded the nomination. Two others were also nominated at that meeting ( Henri Victor Regnault and August Wilhelm von Hofmann ), but it was not until the following meeting on 18 June 1863 that Sedgwick was nominated by Richard Owen ; …
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Phillips, John | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
