To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD …
- … thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal. …
- … would have proposed him for the Royal medal. But I most entirely agree that the Copley is …
- … John Lindley as a candidate for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London . CD was …
- … in 1856. In 1855, he had seconded Thomas Bell’s nomination of Lindley for a Royal Medal. …
- … The medal, however, had been awarded to John Obadiah …
- … not proposed for Royal, I fear both Royal medals would go Physcicists; for I, for one, sh …
- … I fancy there would be feeling against medals to two Botanists. — But for whatever Lindley …
- … Westwood . The Copley Medal was considered to be ‘the highest scientific distinction’ that …
- … the Royal Society had to bestow. The two Royal Medals awarded each year were, on the other …
- … been an unsuccessful candidate for a Royal Medal. As well as being nominated by Miers in …
- … discussed the possibility of a Royal Medal for Albany Hancock in Correspondence vol. 5, …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 31 March [1855] . Hancock was awarded the Royal Medal in 1858. …
- … Since 1853, one of the two Royal Medals awarded annually went to an author of a work in …
- … apparently felt that the council would be reluctant to award both the Copley Medal and one …
- … of the Royal Medals to botanists in the same year. …
- … In the end, both the Copley and a Royal Medal were awarded to zoologists (see n. 14, …
- … below). Lindley was not proposed for either medal. Rather, Carpenter proposed, and CD …
- … of Henri Milne-Edwards for the Copley Medal, which he received in November 1856. CD …
- … Richardson , a zoologist, for the Royal Medal (see letter to Edward Sabine, 23 April [ …
- … 1856] ). Lindley received a Royal Medal in 1857 (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 June …
To T. H. Huxley 31 March [1855]
Summary
Thinks J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society’s Gold Medal. Asks THH’s opinion of his nomination. Lyell deserves Copley Medal, but, since he has Royal Medal, it may be objectionable to propose him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1659 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Thinks J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society’s Gold Medal. Asks THH’s opinion of …
- … his nomination. Lyell deserves Copley Medal, but, since …
- … he has Royal Medal, it may be objectionable to propose him. …
- … high-claim; but as he has had Royal Medal, I presume that it w d . be thought …
- … I really think he amply deserves the Gold Medal. But should you think of some one with …
- … continued to serve until November 1856. Lyell had been awarded the Royal Medal in 1834. …
- … He was awarded the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’ …
- … s most prestigious medal, in 1858. In 1855 it was awarded to Jean Bernard Léon Foucault …
- … for one of the society’s two Royal Medals, which he was awarded in November. Huxley was …
- … the Council, & even thought on subject of Medal. I fear my remarks are rather lengthy, but …
- … C. Darwin With respect to the Copley Medal, I have strong feeling, that Lyell has …
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Royal Society medals. Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. …
- … nomination of John Richardson for a Royal Medal in 1856 (see letter to Edward Sabine, 23 …
- … John Lindley for one of the Royal Medals (Royal Society council minutes). William Henry …
- … I honour your conscientious care about the medals. Thank God I am only an amateur (but a …
- … mine that more good is done by giving medals to younger men in the early part of career, …
- … scientific career is nearly finished. — Whether medals ever do any good is question which …
- … does not concern us, as there the medals are. — I am almost …
- … think I would rather lower standard & give medal to young workers than to old ones, with …
- … Eberhard Bunsen was awarded the Copley Medal in 1860. In 1857, the recipient was the …
- … chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul . Charles Lyell did receive the Copley Medal in 1858. …
- … In 1857, the Royal Medals were given to John Lindley and to the chemist Edward Frankland . …
- … as a minister of Crown who really cared for science. Would you give such men medals— …
- … perhaps medals could not be better applied than exclusively to such men! I confess at …
- … that there sh d be three Natural Science medals on the same year. — Lindley, Sedgwick & …
To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864]
Summary
Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4664 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of …
- … Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him? …
- … George Busk had nominated CD for the Copley Medal; Falconer had seconded the nomination ( …
- … Society, Council minutes). Busk received the medal for CD at the anniversary meeting of …
- … remark on the relation of the award of the medal and the present outburst of bigotry had …
- … who had proposed and seconded me for the medal, but that I presumed it was you, or Hooker …
- … if you attended, you would receive the medal for me; and that if none of you attended that …
To Edward Sabine 23 April [1856]
Summary
CD and Hooker suggest Sir John Richardson for Royal Medal. Other suggestions are George Bentham, Joseph Prestwich, Albany Hancock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1858 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … suggest Sir John Richardson for Royal Medal. Other suggestions are George Bentham, Joseph …
- … and 1848. J. Richardson 1852 . The Royal Medal was awarded to authors for works published …
- … entomologist remarked ‘that by giving the Royal Medal to Mr. Westwood the honour had been …
- … 1856. Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal? Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer , 12 …
- … myself whilst considering the Royal medals. — It strikes us a most appropriate award …
- … eminently well qualified for the Royal medal: viz (according to Hooker, & even what little …
- … minutes). Richardson was awarded a Royal Medal at the annual meeting of the Royal Society, …
- … 8. George Bentham was awarded the Royal Medal in 1859. He was elected FRS in 1862. Joseph …
- … of the beds underlying London ( Prestwich 1854 ). He received the Royal Medal in 1865. …
- … Albany Hancock was awarded the Royal Medal in 1857. For CD’s earlier suggestion of …
- … Obadiah Westwood had been awarded the Royal Medal in 1855, having been nominated by CD and …
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
Matches: 12 hits
- … 1984 , pp. 104–9. CD received the Copley Medal in 1864. See, for example, Correspondence …
- … a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal]. Admits his own dismay regarding the …
- … and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his …
- … The anniversary meeting was to include the presentation of medals; see Sabine 1863 , pp. …
- … 31–5, for the presentation of the Copley Medal to Adam Sedgwick . …
- … The medal was awarded ( Sabine 1863 , p. 31) for Sedgwick’s: observations and discoveries …
- … strong party to obtain the award of the Copley Medal to him expressly on the ground of his …
- … in Devonshire. For a discussion of the significance of medals in Victorian science, …
- … particularly the Royal Medal, see MacLeod 1971 . Sedgwick and Roderick Impey Murchison had …
- … 1861 ). Murchison had received the Copley Medal in 1849. The council of the Royal …
- … including Sabine, voted on recipients of medals ( Record of the Royal Society of London , …
- … John Lubbock nominated CD for the Copley Medal, and William Benjamin Carpenter seconded …
To Benjamin Collins Brodie 26 April [1859]
Summary
CD suggests George Bentham or Joseph Prestwich for Royal Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Sr, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … CD suggests George Bentham or Joseph Prestwich for Royal Medal. …
- … judgment, M r Prestwich amply deserves a medal, for his remarkable & excellent labours on …
- … to add that it would be a facility in thinking over the medals if any list of the names …
- … of individuals existed to whom the medals of all kinds have been given: …
- … it would aid in apportioning the medals fairly for different subjects. — With much respect …
- … who has any especial claim for the Royal Medal. Though not a Botanist myself, it seems to …
- … 1861; George Bentham was awarded a Royal Medal in 1859 ( Record of the Royal Society of …
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2099 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal. …
- … Richardson had received one of the Royal Medals in 1856. CD had supported his nomination ( …
- … you always are in helping me. — Now about medals: I thought that you had quite fixed not …
- … given by the discussion of nominations for medals of the Royal Society in 1857 and by CD’s …
- … had been attempting to secure the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s highest honour, for …
- … chief part from thinking that the Royal medals, from restriction of date, were especially …
- … think that we take distinct views on medals; I would try to disregard general reputation, …
- … fear is that Lindley might not think the Medal any honour after ourselves have had it, …
- … suggested Lindley’ s name to CD for this medal, but CD apparently convinced Hooker that …
- … as ‘eminently well qualified for the Royal Medal’ ( letter to Edward Sabine, 23 April [ …
- … Charles Lyell received the society’s Copley Medal in 1858. Perhaps a reference to the fact …
To T. H. Huxley 18 April [1855]
Summary
Thomas Bell thinks John Lindley superior for Royal Society Medal. CD agrees, but demurs at Medal going to same branch of science two years in succession.
Perplexed about Albany Hancock’s qualifications compared with J. O. Westwood’s.
Death of H. De la Beche.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1668 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Thomas Bell thinks John Lindley superior for Royal Society Medal. …
- … CD agrees, but demurs at Medal going to same branch of science two years in succession. …
- … candidate for the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. Henry Thomas De la Beche died on 13 April …
- … March [1855] . Originally the two Royal Medals were awarded to the authors of the two best …
- … the stipulation was altered, and the medals were awarded ‘for the two most important …
- … it was not thought advisable to give the medal on two following years for same branch of …
- … since Joseph Dalton Hooker had received the medal in 1854, John Lindley , also a botanist, …
- … an entomologist. Westwood was awarded the Royal Medal in 1855. John Lindley received it in …
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 May 1879
Summary
Has received CD’s letter [see 12050]. Gives CD the history of the Baly Medal and names previous recipients. It is not necessary for CD to be present for the award, but if he chooses to attend, arrangements could be made for him to arrive just before the presentation. CD will not be required to make an acceptance speech.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12052A |
Matches: 8 hits
- … to inform CD of the award of the Baly medal ( letter from H. A. Pitman, 9 May 1879 ). …
- … 12050 ]. Gives CD the history of the Baly Medal and names previous recipients. It is not …
- … Queen Anne Street. The Baly in whose memory the Medal was instituted was the Translator of …
- … Müllers Physiology. The donor of the Medal Fund is M r . Dyster, a friend of Balys and a …
- … though not himself a naturalist. The Medal bears the words “Ob physiologiam feliciter …
- … to say anything in acknowledgment. The Medal is presented immediately after the oration. I …
- … Pembrokeshire, Wales, had founded the medal in 1866 in memory of Baly , who had died in a …
- … William Sharpey were recipients of the Baly medal in 1877, 1875, and 1873, respectively. …
Bartholomew, Michael J. 1975–6. The award of the Copley Medal to Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of the Royal Society 30: 209–18.
From George Busk 1 December 1864
Summary
Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 379 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4689 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Has received CD’s Copley Medal for him. Conveys regrets of Royal Society at his absence. …
- … to Hugh Falconer, 8 November [1864] . The medal was left with Erasmus Alvey Darwin (see …
- … P.S. Falconer has told me that you wish the Medal to be left with your brother, & I have …
- … of proposing your name for the Copley Medal having fallen to my lot, I was yesterday …
- … George Busk had proposed CD for the Copley Medal at the meeting of 23 June 1864 (Royal …
- … minutes, 23 June 1864). Busk received the medal on CD’s behalf at the anniversary meeting …
To J. D. Hooker 9[–10] November [1858]
Summary
Lyell receives Copley Medal; CD to write notes for JDH’s éloge of Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9[–10] Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2355 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Lyell receives Copley Medal; CD to write notes for JDH’s éloge of Lyell. …
- … that Charles Lyell be awarded the Copley Medal, the highest award of the society. …
- … unsuccessfully nominated Lyell for the medal in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letters …
- … suggested Albany Hancock for a Royal Medal (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. H. …
- … Provincials are not neglected. Altogether the medals are capital. I shall be proud & bound …
- … is rather a heavy tax on proposers of medals, as I found about Richardson & Westwood. but …
- … Hancock was awarded one of the Royal Medals for his ‘numerous and varied contributions to …
- … Obadiah Westwood and John Richardson for Royal Medals in 1855 and 1856, respectively. See …
To Edward Sabine 5 November [1864]
Summary
Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | Glenbow Archives, Calgary (M 4843, file 17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4660 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Thanks ES in connection with award [of Copley Medal]. …
- … minutes, 1849–50). In 1863, the Copley Medal had been awarded to Adam Sedgwick for his …
- … heard of the change in the gift of the Medals. Under every point of view it is a wonderful …
- … Society of London to award the Copley Medal to practitioners of the natural and physical …
- … after a controversy over the distribution of the Royal Medals in 1849 and 1850. In …
- … Royal Society resolved that the Royal Medals should be awarded annually to practitioners …
To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy. …
- … your kind, most kind, expressions about the medal. Sympathy & not fame is the true & good …
- … conjectured by CD’s mention of the Copley Medal (see n. 3, below). The enclosure has not …
- … for the Royal Society of London’s Copley Medal in 1862 and 1863 but his candidature was …
- … nominated again in 1864 and awarded the medal in November of that year (see Correspondence …
To Henry Tibbats Stainton 13 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1853 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?" ], but explains that …
- … a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given …
- … clearly written by Stainton, entitled ‘Why did Mr. Westwood get the Royal Medal? ’. …
- … who had nominated Westwood for the Royal Medal in 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter …
- … Queen, in the distribution of the Royal Medals; before that time it was compulsory in the …
- … will perceive why, except to M r Newport, no medal was given to an Entomologist. Since the …
- … 1856. Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal? Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer , 12 …
- … Obadiah Westwood had been awarded the medal in 1855 (see n. 5, below). Stainton thought …
- … 9–10). George Newport was awarded the Royal Medal in 1851, not for his entomological work …
From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864
Summary
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4644 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal. …
- … on behalf of Mr. Darwin for the Copley Medal. In forming an estimate of the value and …
- … Appendix VII. CD was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in …
- … due to meet to discuss the candidates for the Copley Medal on Thursday 27 October 1864; …
- … voting on the award of the medal was due to take place on 3 November 1864 (Royal Society, …
- … the proposal of M r . Darwin for the Copley Medal, in default of my presence at the first …
- … Mr. Darwin’s nomination for the Copley Medal. Referring to the classified list—which I …
- … one of the earlier awards of the “Wollaston Medal”—from the Geological Society—the best of …
- … Busk had nominated CD for the Copley Medal (Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). …
- … in support of CD’s nomination for the Copley Medal, Falconer had obtained a list of CD’s …
From H. A. Pitman 9 May 1879
Summary
CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians.
| Author: | Henry Alfred Pitman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12043 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … CD awarded the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. …
- … The Baly medal, a biennial award, was founded from a gift received in 1866 from Frederick …
- … College held this day to award the “Baly Medal” “to the person who shall be deemed to have …
- … himself in the science of Physiology” the Medal has been unanimously awarded to yourself. …
- … the President of the College to present the Medal after the Harveian Oration which will be …
From E. A. Darwin [before 30 November 1864]
Summary
Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 30 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4688 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal. …
- … Michael J. 1975–6. The award of the Copley Medal to Charles Darwin. Notes and Records of …
- … tone, well it is’nt for the Origin that the medal is given, & Lyell answered, oh of course …
- … so it would be quite useless giving the medal for that but the other things are not so …
- … Society had voted to award CD the Copley Medal on the basis of his ‘important Researches …
- … made by Busk and Falconer to propose CD for the medal. This motion contained no mention of …
- … CD had been nominated for the Copley Medal by George Busk ; Hugh Falconer had seconded the …
From G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley 7 December 1864
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.
| Author: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 81–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4704 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … quoting the rules of the award of the Copley Medal and the Royal Society Council’s action …
- … minutes record that CD was awarded the medal for his ‘important Researches in Geology, …
- … included among M r . Darwin’s claims for the Medal be not an “express” omission I don’t …
- … were not asked, to reward it with the Copley Medal, it was too important to be passed sub …
- … the rules of the R.S. the award of the medals is as you know made by the Council alone. …
- … what passed. The proposal of the Copley Medal to Darwin was as you know made by Falconer …
- … IV. George Busk nominated CD for the Copley Medal; the nomination was seconded by Hugh …
- … biology’, as a reason to award CD the Copley Medal. In his letter of 3 November 186[4] , …
- … the grounds of the award of the Copley Medal to M r Darwin” This was assented to, and …
- … If the naming of a work by the proposer of a medal and saying why he did not included it, …
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| Lyell, Charles | (4) |
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George Busk
Summary
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. …
