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very good to me, and a talk with him was as 

 good as sea air." 



Immediately on hearing of the sad news 

 Sir John drew up the following memorial to the 

 Dean of Westminster. 



House of Commons, 21 April 1882. 



Very Reverend Sir — We hope you will not think 

 we are taking a liberty if we venture to suggest that it 

 would be acceptable to a very large number of our 

 countrymen of all classes and opinions that our illustrious 

 countryman, Mr. Darwin, should be buried in West- 

 minster Abbey. — We remain, your obedient Servants, 



This letter was signed by the following : 



John Lubbock, N. J. Maskelyne, A. J. Mundella, 

 G. O. Trevelyan, L. Playfair, C. W. Dilke, D. Wedder- 

 burn, A. Russell, H. Davey, B. Armitage, R. B. Martin, 

 F. W. Buxton, E. L. Stanley, H. Broadhurst, J. Barran, 

 J. H. Cheetham, H. Holland, Campbell Bannerman, 

 C. Bruce, R. Fort, J. Cropper, E. Marjoribanks, Ken- 

 sington, T. Burt, T. Brassey, Fawcett, Herschell, Brand. 



It is recorded in Sir Francis Darwin's Life and 

 Letters of Charles Darwin, that some of the family 

 would have preferred a quiet interment in the 

 country churchyard at Down, but it seems as 

 if they were led to realise that their father, by 

 reason of his greatness, belonged in some measure 

 to the nation, and that the nation could not 

 feel that proper veneration had been paid him 

 unless his remains were laid among those whom 

 the British people most wish to honour. 



The funeral took place on April 26, the pall- 

 bearers being the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke 

 of Argyll, Lord Derby, Professor Huxley, Sir J. 

 Hooker, Mr. Lowell, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Mr. 

 Wallace, and Sir John Lubbock. 



