From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
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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 |
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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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- … of Medallists , vol. 6 (London: Spink and Son, 1917), pp. 11–12. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, …
