From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Adam Sedgwick , professor of geology at the University of Cambridge. According to the council minutes, only seventeen, rather than eighteen, of the twenty-one council members were present at the meeting. Warren De la Rue , Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Robert Godwin-Austen, and Joseph Henry Green were absent; however, it was not unusual for all but De la Rue to miss meetings (see Royal Society Council minutes, 1863, and Lyons 1944 , pp. 272–5). See also letter from Edward Sabine to John Phillips, …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, Emma | |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Date
| 1863 | (1) |
