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From J. D. Hooker   11 April 1876

April 11/76

Dear Darwin

I am much obliged for your note about McLachlan.1

Harriet has too much to do to be able to go with me on Saturday—2 May I bring Brian?,3 which would relieve her, as my House is overflowing my aunt & cousin4 being both here & we shall have G. Henslows little boy, as his mother, poor George’s 2d. wife is dying.5

Ever aff yr | J D Hooker

PS. to FRS We have selected

  • Abney
  • Armstrong
  • Ferrier
  • Fox
  • Garrod
  • R B Clarke
  • Croll
  • Dunkin
  • Erichsen
  • Haywd
  • Meldrum
  • Reed
  • Rutherford
  • Thorpe
  • Swinhoe

All had high absolute majority on first voting!6

1
Robert McLachlan was a candidate for fellowship of the Royal Society of London; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April [1876] and n. 3.
5
George Henslow’s second wife Georgina Brook Henslow died in 1876. The ‘little boy’ was probably George Stevens Henslow (the son of Henslow and his first wife). No child of his second wife has been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10446,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10446