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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 37
Summary:
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 255a–c
Summary:
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 72–5
Summary:
Sabine’s Royal Society address [awarding the Copley Medal to CD], in referring to the Origin, did not contain the words "expressly excluded". The actual words were "expressly omitted from the grounds of our award". This was not meant to place the Origin on a sort of index expurgatorium, but was a simple statement of fact.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 76
Summary:
Wishes to correct an expression in his last letter which is "perhaps not rigorously exact": he should not have said "declining to honour it [the Origin] with the Copley Medal" but simply "not honouring it with the Copley medal". "Declining implies having been asked and there was no asking in the present case."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1383)
Summary:
He is certain he heard "expressly excluded" [of Origin from consideration in Royal Society award of Copley Medal]. Believes GGS may have inadvertently substituted "excluded" for "omitted". THH then submits his reasons for objecting to the passage as a whole even with the word "omitted".
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:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 81–4
Summary:
It is improbable that he changed the wording of Sabine’s address without his noticing. Proceeds to defend the passage by quoting the rules of the award of the Copley Medal and the Royal Society Council’s action in this case, which is accurately presented in the wording of the award.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385)
Summary:
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 87–8
Summary:
Corrects a minor error in his last letter.
Urges THH to return proofs of his paper to Royal Society. Some authors are more ready to come down on reviewers and secretary for delay than to get on with their own proofs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1386)
Summary:
THH rejects GGS’s charges. Chides him with possibility that if he substituted "Falconer" for "Busk" he might have done it also for "excluded" and "omitted".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 256
Summary:
Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.
Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.
CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.
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:
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