To H. W. Bates   12 February 1879

Dear Bates

Enclosed is the certificate with 7 signatures, which I sh^d. think was ample, but I send it to you instead of direct to R. S., as you might like to get through some mutual friend Sir H. C. Rawlinson’s signature, whom I do not know.— If I were in your place I sh^d. append to your title “Ex Pres of Ent. Soc^y.”; but you are the best judge of this.—¹ I think that you had better send the certificate, with note enclosed by a safe hand or registered.—

Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin