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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[1 November 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[November 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2237
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[c. 1 November 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 253
Summary:
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
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:
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
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:
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:
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
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
19 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 62 (EH 88206506)
Summary:
About buying shares.
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
