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To E. W. Badger   [19 July 1880]1

I request that you will be so good as to inform the members of the Committee that their wish to name the medal after me is a very great honour, which I gladly accept. It is particularly pleasing to me to have my name connected, in however indirect a manner, with a scheme for advancing science, the study of which has been my chief source of happiness throughout life.2

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The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, [19 July 1880].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12660A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12660A