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DCP-LETT-4686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Natural History Review
Date:
[Dec? 1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.286a)
Summary:

Forwards a communication from A. Fonblanque for possible publication in Natural History Review. [See "Notice of mule breeding", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 5 (1865): 147–8.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4689

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
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Herschel11538

From:
Charles Thomas Longley[?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1864-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.455
Summary:

An invitation to a meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4690

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
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Faraday4510

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/1/4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4690F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
1 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £262 13s. 5d.

Sorry to hear JH is still suffering from gout.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4105

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Peter Guthrie Tait
Date:
1864-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.425b (C: RS:HS 24.72)
Summary:

Thanks PT for papers on energy. Discusses topics of the papers, including quaternions and the concept of heat equalling motion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4693

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
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DCP-LETT-4692

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
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FVM-64-12-02

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 December 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927) pp. 137-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4691

From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Sends photo for B. D. Walsh; requests those of New World entomologists, and CD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4691F

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 129–30)
Summary:

His suspicions regarding [Edward] Sabine’s treatment of CD were justified by the Anniversary Address. THH, [George] Busk, and [Hugh] Falconer insisted on a more accurate account of the grounds on which the Copley Medal was awarded to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4698

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

RS-MM-001619

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Williams & Morgate
Date:
4 December 1864
Source of text:
MM/21/59, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4697

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
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6395

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[4 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.160 & 24.74
Summary:

Has copied out some extracts from his translation of Homer and is wondering whether to publish the first twelve books. Comments on his views and poetry of Alfred Tennyson (1st Baron Tennyson).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6855

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[4 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.163 & 24.73
Summary:

Thanks for the diary and pocket book. Sees that A. V. Guillemin has published an illustrated Astronomy [Le ciel (Paris, 1864)]. Thinks there is scope for publishing a volume of engravings of astronomical objects. Gives his own idea for the construction of a photometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4695

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
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