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From F. M. Balfour   [14 December 1876]

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Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14 Dec 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10713

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  • letter of [14] December [1876] , Balfour had sent CD the names of six fellows of the Royal Society of London who would sign his nomination form for membership. Michael Foster

From F. M. Balfour   11 November 1873

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Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Nov 1873
Classmark:  DAR 160: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9138

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  • Michael Foster , and Albert George Dew-Smith . For more on the history of the Zoological Station at Naples, see Heuss 1991 . Huxley had been ill and having financial problems (see letter

From F. M. Balfour   [14] December [1876]

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Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14] Dec [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10712

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  • … s certificate (see letter to F. M. Balfour, 13 December 1876 and n. 4). Michael Foster was …

To F. M. Balfour   13 December 1876

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CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Date:  13 Dec 1876
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10716

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  • letter of 11 December 1876 . Thomas Henry Huxley was a secretary of the Royal Society, and Joseph Dalton Hooker was president ( ODNB ). Michael Foster
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