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DCP-LETT-4340F

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Phillips
Date:
12 Nov 1863
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Summary:

Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].

Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4651

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

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

DCP-LETT-4694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 388)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.

CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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