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DCP-LETT-4656

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 35
Summary:

[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.

Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.

Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4659

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

DCP-LETT-4655

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

Tyndall2169

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4th Nov
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1509, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4658

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
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Faraday4506

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Sherratt
Date:
4 November 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2/3/7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-64-11-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
5 November 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 207)
Summary:

Appreciates THH’s note more than Medal.

Encourages THH to write a popular treatise on zoology.

Sends Mrs Huxley a quotation from Tennyson, with sarcastic comment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Glenbow Archives, Calgary (M 4843, file 17)
Summary:

Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4507

From:
Thomas Sherratt
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4661F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.

Discusses his long period of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5830

From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.299
Summary:

Regarding the differences between portraits and photographs. Is sending him some magnesium for photographic purposes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4662

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
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Herschel7748

From:
G. Wharton Simpson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/3.110; Reel 10
Summary:

Photographic News received copies of papers from R.S.P.T. giving evidence of [JH's] use of hyposulfite of soda. Will refer to W. H. F. Talbot on use of bromine, as JH suggested. P. B. Goddard of Philadelphia claims to have used bromine in Daguerreotype process in 1839, but did not announce it publicly until 1843.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2171

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
7th. Nov. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3851, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2170

From:
John Tyndall
To:
C. K. Akin
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
29 (1865), pp. 218-31, Phil. Mag.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001441

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
7 November 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4663

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

DCP-LETT-4664

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
8 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 36
Summary:

Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4665

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
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