From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan 2. 1876
Dear Romanes,
I shall have real pleasure in proposing you for the Royal Soc, & I have sent for a blank certificate. This I will forward to you, to be filled up with your name, residence, & a list of your papers.2 I shall be in London early on the 6th at 2 Bryanston St; & you had better send me the certificate there for my signature.3 Please suggest some other men, not on the council, to whom I may send it for their signatures.4 No doubt Burdon Sanderson will be one.5
I have just begun to read with much interest your medusa paper.6
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
P.S. | I will call & see you early on in the following week.7
Dear Romanes,
Many thanks for sending me your Medusa paper which I shall be very curious to read. I hope your work is flourishing
Yrs sincerely | Francis Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Eimer, Theodor. 1874. Ueber künstliche Theilbarkeit von Aurelia aurita und Cyanea capillata in physiologische Individuen. Verhandlungen der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft in Würzburg n.s. 6: 137–61.
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10765
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp (PS by Francis Darwin)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10765,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10765.xml