To Raphael Meldola 5 February 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Feb 5 1882
Dear Mr. Meldola
I have asked Mr Murray to send a copy of my worm-book to you, marked for the Club.—1
I shall be happy to propose you for the R. Soc, but I require a good deal of information. No, I believe the best plan will be to enclose a paper for you to fill up the blanks.— It is usual to give a pretty full list of all publications.2
You are probably aware that no one on the Council can sign & I know personally wonderfully few scientific men. I must therefore get you to suggest names & addresses of some chemists, physicists & naturalists (& there is no impropriety in your doing this), amounting to 6 in number of whom 3 must personally know you. I can suggest only Mr Stainton & Sir J. Lubbock; but whether they will sign I cannot say as some men are very chary of their signatures. So I had better have 6 or 7 names besides my own.—3
I suppose that you are aware that very rarely anyone is elected until the 2d or 3d year.—4
My dear Sir | In Haste | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Very many thanks for your kind note
Footnotes
Bibliography
Earthworms: The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms: with observations on their habits. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1881.
Summary
Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13662
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Raphael Meldola
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13662,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13662.xml