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APPENDIX I. 



House of Commons, April 25, 1882. 

 My dear Darwin, — I quite sympathise with your feeling, and 

 personally I should greatly have preferred that your father should 

 have rested in Down amongst us all. It is, I am sure, quite under- 

 stood that the initiative was not taken by you. Still, from a national 

 point of view, it is clearly right that he should be buried in the Abbey. 

 I esteem it a great privilege to be allowed to accompany my dear 

 master to the grave. 



Believe me, yours most sincerely, 



John Lubbock. 

 W. E. Darwin, Esq. 



The family gave up their first- formed plans, and the funeral took 

 place in Westminster Abbey on April 26th. The pall-bearers were : — 



Sir John Lubbock, Canon Farrar, 



Mr. Huxley, Sir J. D. Hooker, 



Mr. James Russell Lowell Mr. Wm. Spottiswoode 

 (American Minister), (President of the Royal 



Society), 



Mr. A. R. Wallace, The Earl of Derby, 

 The Duke of Devonshire, The Duke of Argyll. 



The funeral was attended by the representatives of France, Ger- 

 many, Italy, Spain, Russia, and by those of the Universities, and 

 learned Societies, as w r ell as by large numbers of personal friends and 

 distinguished men. 



The grave is in the North aisle of the Nave, close to the angle of 

 the choir-screen, and a few feet from the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. 

 The stone bears the inscription — 



CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN. 



Born 12 February, 1809. 



Died 19 April, 1882. 



