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From Archibald Geikie   7 December 1875

Edinburgh

Decr. 7th. 1875

Dear Sir

May I beg the addition of your name to the enclosed application. Mr. Croll suggests that you might be willing perhaps to head the “General Knowledge” column.1 If you do so you will greatly gratify him and do a service to one who I am sure is deserving of the honour.

Yours very truly | Arch Geikie

Charles Darwin Esq

Contemporary copy

1
CD recommended James Croll for fellowship of the Royal Society of London from general knowledge (The Royal Society archive GB 117, EC/1876/08). Croll was elected a fellow of the society in June 1876 (Record of the Royal Society of London). See also Correspondence vol. 23, letter to Archibald Geikie, 9 December 1875.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10289G,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10289G