From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 181
Summary:
Would like to come to Down to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Would like to come to Down to visit.
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
The Copley Medal is considered a great honour, but such things make little difference to CD, except for the several kind letters he received. It shows that natural selection is making some progress.
His health is poor.
Work is crawling on Variation;
occasional botany recreative.
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.