From G. G. Stokes to T. H. Huxley 5 December 1864
Lensfield Cottage Cambridge
5th Decr. 1864
Dear Huxley,
There was one expression in my last1 which is not perhaps rigorously exact. Instead of saying “declining to honour it with the Copley Medal of the Royal Society” I should have said simply “not honouring it with the Copley Medal of the Royal Society”2 For declining implies having been asked, and there was no asking in the present case.
Yours very truly | G. G. Stokes
Footnotes
Summary
Wishes to correct an expression in his last letter which is "perhaps not rigorously exact": he should not have said "declining to honour it [the Origin] with the Copley Medal" but simply "not honouring it with the Copley medal". "Declining implies having been asked and there was no asking in the present case."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4701
- From
- George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 99: 76
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4701,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4701.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12
