From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 [Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 33
Summary:
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 18
Summary:
Is having E. Suess’s essay [see 4284] translated; will forward it as soon as it is done.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 25
Summary:
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
2 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 472
Summary:
Encloses list of CD’s publications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
25 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 144: 475
Summary:
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
27 December 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/86, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 164: 23
Summary:
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
5 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 24
Summary:
HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 38
Summary:
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project