From F. M. Balfour 11 December 1876
Trinity College | Cambridge
Dec. 11. 76
My dear Mr. Darwin
You were kind enough some time ago, to offer to propose me for election to the Royal Society;1 At the time you made this offer I thought that Foster would naturally do this for me; but he has been put upon the council of the R. Society & cannot therefore propose me; & he has suggested to me that I should write to you in case you still wished to bring me forward.2
I hope that you will in no way think yourself bound to propose me unless you really think that I am of sufficient standing & have done sufficient work to merit so great a distinction as being proposed by yourself; & that you will pardon my apparent egoism in writing to you in this way.
I am | Yours very truly | F. M. Balfour
Footnotes
Bibliography
Balfour, Francis Maitland. 1874. A preliminary account of the development of the elasmobranch fishes. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 14: 323–64.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10711
- From
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 26
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10711,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10711.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
