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From John Lubbock   12 February 1867

15, Lombard Street. E.C.

12 Feb 1867

My dear Mr. Darwin

Should you mind signing the enclosed?

I think the work Stainton has done would fully justify his election as an F.R.S.1

Yours very sincerely | John Lubbock

C. Darwin Esq

Footnotes

CD evidently returned the enclosure, which has not been found, to Lubbock. The entomologist Henry Tibbats Stainton became a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1867 (DNB).

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

Summary

H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-5400
From
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Lombard St, 15
Source of text
DAR 170: 55
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5400,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5400.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15

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