IX 



THE DARWIN MEMORIAL 



[June 9th, 1885] 



Address "by the President of the Royal Society, in the 

 name of 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 HIGHNESS, 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 



