From W. B. Dawkins 1 December 1875
The Owens College, | Manchester,
1 Dec. 1875
My dear Sir,
When I was out last summer in Sydney I met Mr. Clarke the old hero, who has survived most of his European scientific friends, and found out that the wish of his heart was F.R.S. He seems to me to be well deserving of that recognition, and as I heard that you knew of his work, and had also a personal knowledge of him I have sent his proposal paper to you thinking that you might like to sign it.1 Murchison, Sedgwick, Phillips, Lyell, alas! are dead, with all of whom Mr. Clarke had an intimate friendship and who would have given him their cordial support.2
If he be elected the Colony will take it as a compliment: for out there the few scientific men believe that “out of sight is out of mind.”
Wishing that you are quite well in spite of the East wind,3 | I am | My dear Sir | Yours truly | W. Boyd Dawkins
Charles Darwin Esq F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
Summary
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10285
- From
- William Boyd Dawkins
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Owens College, Manchester
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 131
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10285,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10285.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23