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Darwin Correspondence Project

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   29 December 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Dec 29th 1880

My dear Dr Burdon Sanderson.

If you would not object to sign the enclosed certificate for my son Francis, it would greatly please him & me.— But you must not think of doing so if you doubt about the propriety of his candidateship.1

I enclose an addressed envelope. & remain | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Please enclose a slip of paper with the date of your Lecture at R. Institution.—2

Footnotes

Burdon Sanderson’s signature appears on Francis Darwin’s certificate of proposal for fellowship of the Royal Society of London; Francis was elected on 8 June 1882 (Royal Society archives, GB 117 EC/1882/09).
Burdon Sanderson read his lecture on ‘Excitability in plants and animals’ at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 February 1881 (Nature, 9 December 1880, p. 130).

Summary

Requests JSBS sign certificate for [Francis Darwin’s] candidacy [for Royal Society].

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12954,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12954.xml

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