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
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, [19 July 1880].
Summary
CD is honoured to have a medal named after him by an organisation [Midland Union of Natural History Societies] dedicated to the advancement of science. [See 12660.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12660A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward William Badger
- Source of text
- Manchester Guardian, 2 May 1882, p. 6
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12660A,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12660A.xml
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