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2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal
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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…
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- … < Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial …
- … the Society in 1662. In a speech of thanks on receiving the medal in 1894, Huxley affirmed his …
- … to the University a ‘special copy’ of the Darwin medal, ‘struck in gold’. In making the presentation …
- … had been Secretary of the Royal Society at the time when the medal was commissioned from Allan Wyon …
- … Allan Wyon was one of a large family dynasty of medal and seal designers and die engravers of German …
- … be mechanically scaled down to the required size of the medal, avoiding the slow labour of engraving …
- … however, preclude artistry or subtle meanings. Wyon’s medal has a profile portrait of Darwin on the …
- … physical location one example of the medal is at Down House, together with the wax model. …
- … to 1890- 10-31. medium and material struck medal, signed by Wyon on both sides. The …
- … of the Royal Society’, no. 56, ‘Royal Society, Darwin medal . . . ‘struck in silver or bronze’. ‘The …
- … Darwin corresponding to the portrayal in the Royal Society medal, but measuring 15cm, and described …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … to mark the jubilee by commissioning a ‘Darwin-Wallace medal’, which was designed and modelled by …
- … University Museum, successfully proposed that ‘the Darwin Medal be permanent and awarded at stated …
- … among these recipients was Wallace himself, who received his medal (uniquely cast in gold) at a …
- … his features’ together with those of Darwin on the medal. This was, indeed, a pairing of the two men …
- … Linnean Society council was anxious that the Darwin-Wallace medal should be respected as an …
- … and the other illustrations were portraits of the seven 1908 medal-winners, mainly taken from …
- … metal dies. Bowcher’s design for the Linnean Society’s medal has a lively head-and-shoulders …
- … three-quarter view, but Darwin is nearer to a profile. The medal is inscribed round the rim on both …
- … Darwin from a photograph by his son, from which the Darwin-medal portrait was principally modelled’. …
- … Darwin , 1887. ‘Plaster casts from the dies of the medal, by Mr. F. Bowcher’ were also put on show …
- … actually closer to that created by Wyon in the Royal Society medal. An undated plaque in the …
- … (WE.2358-2016) reproduces the design of Bowcher’s medal, but is inscribed simply ‘DARWIN’. …
- … AC Box 19. The Linnean Society also holds the dies for the medal – location code AC Box 10. The …
- … medals cast in silver or bronze. (Wallace’s gold medal still belongs to his descendants.) …
- … p. 10, no. 19. George Beccaloni, ‘The Darwin-Wallace medal, the Alfred Russel Wallace website’, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … could include, if he chose, a specially designed ‘Darwin medal’ in either gold or bronze. The …
- … his death in 1882, suggested that the initiation of the medal in 1880 had also been intended as a …
- … of condescension. Darwin wrote, ‘their wish to name the medal after me is a very great honour, which …
- … of happiness throughout life’.The design of the Darwin medal was appropriately entrusted to the …
- … reverse an inscription runs round the edge: ‘The Darwin medal founded by the Midland Union of …
- … coral. As an example, one surviving but unlocated medal, awarded for ‘Botany’ in 1888, went to James …
- … to 1880-12-31 medium and material the medal was cast in either gold or bronze …
Copley medal
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Darwin is finally, and controversially, awarded the Copley medal by the Royal Society
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- … Darwin is finally, and controversially, awarded the Copley medal by the Royal Society …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … me for days afterwards very unwell’. The Copley medal at last November and December …
- … & all the world is reckoned a great honour’; the gold medal was considered the greatest accolade …
- … that he was mostly pleased to have been awarded the Copley Medal because it indicated that ‘Natural …
- … letter of congratulation for the award of the Copley Medal, and requested Darwin’s photograph, but …
- … ). When Hugh Falconer noted that the award of the Copley Medal to Darwin at the end of 1864 …
- … the emotions in man and animals (1872). The Copley medal controversy After the award …
- … had earlier revealed his awareness that a Royal Society medal could not be easily won when he …
- … Royal Society on 30 November, when the award of the Copley Medal to Darwin was announced. Sabine’s …
- … make him seriously ill. In Darwin’s absence, the Copley Medal was received by George Busk and …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … Klinkicht’s rugged graphic version of Legros’s Darwin medal was reproduced on this page of Monkhouse …
- … at the Slade School of Art, Legros introduced classes in medal-making to the syllabus, and was …
- … Philip Attwood, ‘The Society of the Medallists’, The Medal , 3 (July 1983), pp. 4–11. Attwood, …
- … 1987), p. 328, no. 3093. Attwood, Artistic Circles: The Medal in Britain, 1880–1918 (London: …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
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< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … model of 1869, but from the Royal Society’s Darwin medal, which was cast in gold and also in other …
- … of the Darwin family, possessed a copy of the Royal Society medal, but the circumstances surrounding …
- … Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 24, no. 124, ‘Darwin medal of the Royal Society lent by …
- … See also catalogue entry for the Royal Society Darwin medal. …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
2.2 Thomas Woolner metal plaque
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< Back to Introduction In Benedict Read’s account of the work of Thomas Woolner in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, there is a reference to a ‘bronze medallion of Darwin . . . catalogued in Woolner’s studio in February 1913 (lot 123), which was presumably…
Awards
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In 1991 the Modern Language Association of America awarded its first ever Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters to the editors of The correspondence of Charles Darwin. The Morton N. Cohen Award was established in 1989 by a gift from…
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)
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Founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project Fred, as he was known to all who worked with him, first conceived of a project to publish all of Darwin’s correspondence in 1974 on his retirement as President of the American Council of Learned Societies,…
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- … of the grounds for the award of the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philsophical Society …
- … the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the …
- … Philosphical Society, 2000 Awarded Founder’s Medal of the Society for the History of Natural …
4.55 Harry Furniss caricature
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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…
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- … characterisation of Darwin in Alphonse Legros’s medal of 1881. Furniss must have chosen these models …
2.9 Legros medallion, plaster model
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< Back to Introduction This plaster model for Legros’s bronze medallion of Darwin has an interesting provenance. It originally belonged to William Ernest Henley, the poet, journal editor and art critic, who was a close friend and associate of Legros.…
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- … when he agreed to supervise the professional casting of the medal of Darwin in France. …
2.10 Moritz Klinkicht, print from Legros
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< Back to Introduction This bold wood engraving is a copy of Legros’s bronze portrait medallion of Darwin (see separate entry), interpreting sculptural relief in terms of line and tone. It was executed by the German draughtsman and engraver Moritz…
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- … Museum’s impression of the print is inscribed ‘From the medal by Alphonse Legros. Exhibited at the …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … a fellow of the Royal Society, and was awarded its Royal Medal the following year. He struggled to …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … the Society to award Darwin the prestigious Copley Medal, news that was announced in 1864. …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
1.17 Alphonse Legros drawing
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< Back to Introduction Alphonse Legros’s drawing of Darwin in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of three likenesses of him by this artist in different media, the others being a drypoint engraving and a medallion. Only the medallion is dateable, to 1881:…
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- … and the turbulent image of Darwin embodied in Legros’s medal. This artist often wrought dramatic …
