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underwent a change for the worse; attacks of 
giddiness and fainting supervened, and on the 19th 
of April he died. On the 24th, his remains were 
interred in Westminster Abbey, in accordance with 
the general feeling that such a man as he should 
not go to the grave without some public recogni- 
tion of the greatness of his work. 
Mr. Darwin became a Fellow of the Royal 
Society in 1839; one of the Royal Medals was 
awarded to him in 1853, and he received the 
Copley Medal in 1864. The “ Life and Letters,” 
edited with admirable skill and judgment by Mr. — 
Francis Darwin, gives a full and singularly vivid 
presentment of his father’s personal character, of 
his mode of work, and of the events of his life. In 
the present brief obituary notice, the writer has 
attempted nothing more than to select and put 
together those facts which enable us to trace the ~ 
intellectual evolution of one of the greatest of the 
many great men of science whose names adorn the 
long roll of the Fellows of the Royal Society. 
