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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. 



