To F. S. B. François de Chaumont 4 May 1874
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 4 1874
Dear Dr de Chaumont
I return the enclosed signed. I observe the qualifications, viz. the subjects to which you have attended, & any papers which you may have published, are not entered in the certificate; & this ought to be done.1
yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. Look to the back of the certificate for Instructions.—
Footnotes
François de Chaumont’s name was being put forward for election to the Royal Society of London; he had asked CD for support (see the letter to F. S. B. François de Chaumont, 30 April 1874 and n. 1).
Summary
Returns FDeC’s certificate for the Royal Society signed.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9439
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/5) Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum
- Physical description
- LS(A) 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9439,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9439.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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