From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
[4 Dec 1864?]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:
Sends J. O. Westwood’s direction.
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:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.161
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's extracts from Homer. Hopes JH will publish before he has finished all the translation. Will write again soon.
Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[7 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.229 & 24.75
Summary:
Calling his attention to one of his own articles. Concerning Mr. Magers and Roger Boscovitch's views. Concerning Magellanic Clouds.
Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Garland Barrett
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
December 7. 1864
Source of text:
03--04b, UCL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
George Thwaites
To:
William Hooker
Date:
8 December 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors correspondence, vol. 57, f. 229
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Date:
8 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Summary:
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Victor Naudin
Date:
8 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303)
Summary:
Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].
Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.
Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.
Mentions exchange of photographs.
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:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.15
Summary:
Sent JH 'Index Chart' of Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Compares five triangulation methods: longitudinal series, George Everest's, G. B. Airy's, that of JH's son John, and minimum squares. JH's son and bride avoided cyclone that destroyed Calcutta Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Peter Guthrie Tait
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.425a
Summary:
Sends, at the request of William Thomson, articles from North British Review on the topic of energy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project