From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 186[4]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 19
Summary:
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 48
Summary:
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 1
Summary:
Announces that the Council of the Royal Society has awarded CD the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 244
Summary:
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 303
Summary:
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1864
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 20
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 181: 10
Summary:
Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.
Mating and sexual organs of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 117
Summary:
The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 52
Summary:
Prescribes "syrup of phosphate of iron". Requests a urine sample.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 21
Summary:
Is sure that any of CD’s friends would be proud to accept the medal on his behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 112
Summary:
Identifies South African species of plants that are normally non-climbers in the wild but climb freely when grown from seed at Glasnevin. Thinks there is probably a gradation in the wild between climbing and non-climbing varieties related to the degree of exposure each particular plant faces.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 113
Summary:
Has examined his specimens discussed in his previous note and adds further observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Robinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 114
Summary:
Identifies a climbing plant that CD saw at the Society’s gardens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 53
Summary:
Has analysed CD’s urine and suggests he omit the alkaline powders. Continues to prescribe iron phosphate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 254–7
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 54
Summary:
Prescribes carbonate of ammonia with horseradish. CD is to avoid any magnesia. Recommends CD go without medicine for a time and avoid the "evil habit" of taking too much water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Nov] 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 48
Summary:
CD’s urine is normal. He may take antacids for his stomach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 165
Summary:
Observations on Gossypium varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 182
Summary:
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
