From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 379
Summary:
Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 105: B31–2
Summary:
Discusses the affairs of the late Edward Evans for whom CD and EAD are trustees.
Has got CD’s [Copley] Medal, "it is rather ugly to look at, & too light to turn into candlesticks".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 164: 22
Summary:
The [Royal Society] President’s address is in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], but one or two sentences have been omitted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4)
Summary:
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Contributor:
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From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:
Sends photo for B. D. Walsh; requests those of New World entomologists, and CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145
Summary:
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 262–3
Summary:
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Victor Naudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 7
Summary:
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Directs CD to his short memoir on crossing ["De l’hybridité", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 59 (1864): 837–45].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Elizabeth Juliana Sabine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 2
Summary:
Acknowledges the receipt of CD’s letter on behalf of her husband, who is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 358
Summary:
Salmon and trout increase in size with river.
Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.
Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 357
Summary:
Sorry to hear CD ill.
On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Leo Lesquereux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G256)
Summary:
Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B37–8
Summary:
Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 29
Summary:
Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.
Hermann Crüger left no widow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 49
Summary:
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 60
Summary:
Sends paper on mimetic analogy [Intellect. Obs. 6 (1864): 307–13].
Mongrel experiments are progressing, but he has observed no signs of sterility.
Contributor:
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From:
John Struthers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 267
Summary:
Sends CD part two of his anatomical papers [Anatomical and physiological observations (1863) [part 1 (1854)]]; thinks CD may be interested in the paper dealing with variation in numbers of digits in man. Draws CD’s attention to another variation: the occurrence of a supra-condyloid process in the human arm.
Contributor:
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