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To G. M. Humphry   14 March 1873

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Mar 14— 1873

Dear Professor Humphry

I am sorry to say that the state of my health prevents me from attending the meeting to which you refer. I have heard from Prof. Hughes on the same general subject, & have told him how glad & proud I shall be to aid in any way in doing honour to the venerated memory of Sedgwick—1

Pray believe me | yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

LS

1
Adam Sedgwick died in January 1873; he had taught CD geology when CD was a student at Cambridge University (Correspondence vol. 1). See Correspondence vol. 21, letter to T. M. Hughes, 13 March [1873], and this volume, Supplement, letter from G. M. Humphry, [before 14] March 1873. The letter from Thomas McKenny Hughes has not been found. A meeting was planned to take place in Cambridge on 25 March to discuss a memorial to Sedgwick. It was hoped that the memorial would take the form of a geological museum to house Sedgwick’s collections (Lancet, 22 March 1873, p. 426); the Sedgwick Memorial Museum opened in 1904. CD subscribed fifteen guineas and was on the London Committee (Reporter, 27 March 1873, p. 186).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8810F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8810F