From Robert Swinhoe 14 January 1874
33 Carlyle Sqr. | SW.
14 January, 1874
My dear Mr. Darwin,
You may not have heard that I have returned to England; but I was driven to it to seek a cure from a paralytic affection of the back and lower limbs, which rendered me next to useless in China—1 While at home I wish to stand for the Royal Society and I would esteem it a great favour if you would do me the honour to propose me as a fellow. I think I shall be able to get five other fellows to endorse your recommendation.2 I would come to see you, but the Doctor will not let me leave the room, where I have to pass the greater part of the day on a couch before the fire. I have brought home a glorious pair of Japanese Storks, now living in the Zoo. Gardens.3 They are much larger than their allies of Europe & America, with a strange affinity for the latter. You must see them. I hope you continue well.
With kind regards, | Your’s very truly, | Robert Swinhoe.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Swinhoe, Robert. 1873. On the white stork of Japan. [Read 20 May 1873.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1873): 512–14.
Summary
Wants CD to propose him for the Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9242
- From
- Robert Swinhoe
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Carlyle Square, 33
- Source of text
- DAR 177: 337
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9242,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9242.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
