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THE DARWIN MEMORIAL 
[June 9th, 1885] 
Address by the President of the Royal Society, in the 
nameof the Memorial Committee, on handing over 
the statue of Darwin to H.R.H. the Prince of 
Wales, as representative of the Trustees of the 
British Museum. 
Your RoyaL HicHNEss,—It is now three years 
since the announcement of the death of our famous 
countryman, Charles Darwin, gave rise to a 
manifestation of public feeling, not only in these 
realms, but throughout the civilised world, which, 
if I mistake not, is without precedent in the 
modest annals of scientific biography. 
The causes of this deep and wide outburst of 
emotion are not far to seek. We had lost one of 
these rare ministers and interpreters of Nature 
whose names mark epochs in the advance of 
