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From F. M. Balfour   [c. 31 January 1878?]

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His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10332

From F. M. Balfour   11 December 1876

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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.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10711

From F. M. Balfour   [14] December [1876]

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Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14] Dec [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10712

From F. M. Balfour   [14 December 1876]

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Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14 Dec 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10713

To F. M. Balfour   13 December 1876

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CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  13 Dec 1876
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10716

To F. M. Balfour   4 September 1880

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Praises FMB’s BAAS address [on embryology, Rep. BAAS 50 (1880): 636–44]. Recent progress of embryology splendid.

In work on plants, astonished at sensitivity of radicle and its power to transmit stimuli to adjoining part; such general sensitivity should be considered in genesis of nervous system.

Feels "malicious" pleasure at FMB’s criticism of Herbert Spencer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  4 Sept 1880
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12706

From F. M. Balfour   13 September 1880

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Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].

Has met Horace Darwin and wife;

climbed Matterhorn.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Sept 1880
Classmark:  DAR 160: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12712

From F. M. Balfour   [22 November 1880]

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Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12786

To F. M. Balfour   12 January 1881

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Asks FMB to translate letter from Ernst Krause [answering criticisms by Samuel Butler] and to send it to Nature [ "Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler" 23 (1881): 288].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  12 Jan 1881
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13007

From F. M. Balfour   13 January [1881]

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Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13011

To F. M. Balfour   28 January 1881

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Thanks FMB for translation of Ernst Krause’s letter for Nature.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  28 Jan 1881
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13030

To F. M. Balfour   6 July 1881

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Comments on FMB’s book [Treatise on comparative embryology, 2 vols. (1880–1)]. Had already purchased copy. Could second copy be sent to someone else? Fritz Müller?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  6 July 1881
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/21)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13235

From F. M. Balfour   10 July 1881

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Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 160: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13240

From F. M. Balfour   11 November 1873

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Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1873
Classmark:  DAR 160: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9138

From F. M. Balfour   [20 March – 14 April 1875]

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Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9203
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