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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 22
Summary:

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

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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 149
Summary:

Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.

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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1897
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 November 1876
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1901
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 26
Summary:

Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.

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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 24
Summary:

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.

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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14] Dec [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 25
Summary:

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

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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 31 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 23
Summary:

His brother Cecil is reading Coral reefs, and, as his business involves the Keeling Islands and Torres Straits, he offers to make any observations CD might want.

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