From William Jenner [after 24 November] 1864
Summary
CD’s urine is normal. He may take antacids for his stomach.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Nov] 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4367 |
To Andrew Murray 2 November [1864]
Summary
Wishes AM success in undertaking his work on geographical distribution [The geographical distribution of mammals (1866)]. CD has no suggestions to make as he has not recently attended to the subject.
He is still weak after his long illness and supposes he will ever remain so.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4649 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
From Edward Sabine 3 November 1864
Summary
Announces that the Council of the Royal Society has awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4651 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Summary
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
To Ray Society [before 4 November 1864]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin suggesting the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ray Society |
| Date: | [before 4 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 102r: Minute 1118, 4th November 1864) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4654 |
From T. H. Huxley 4 November 1864
Summary
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4655 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 November [1864]
Summary
[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.
Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.
Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4656 |
From Charles Lyell 4 November 1864
Summary
Delighted to hear that CD was awarded Copley Medal. Important because award by chartered institution acts on outsiders and helps increase stock of moral courage.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4658 |
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
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 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 November [1864]
Summary
Appreciates THH’s note more than Medal.
Encourages THH to write a popular treatise on zoology.
Sends Mrs Huxley a quotation from Tennyson, with sarcastic comment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661 |
To Henry Holland 6 November [1864]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | Peter Harrington (dealer) (September 2020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661F |
From Hugh Falconer 7 November [1864]
Summary
Hopes CD will be able to receive the Copley Medal in person. HF sees it as doubly significant in recognising CD’s work and as a protest against the profession of religious as opposed to scientific faith.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4662 |
From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Summary
Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.
Mating and sexual organs of insects.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
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 |
From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864]
Summary
The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4665 |
From William Jenner 9 November 1864
Summary
Prescribes "syrup of phosphate of iron". Requests a urine sample.
| Author: | William Jenner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4666 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
| letter | (36) |
| Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (3) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Jenner, William | (4) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Robinson, William (b) | (1) |
| Sabine, Edward | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Jenner, William | (4) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (3) |
