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To G. J. Allman   17 December 1880

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D 17/80

My dear Prof Allman

Will you be so kind as to read over the enclosed memorial, about which I feel the deepest interest.1 If you agree, will you sign it and append “Pres Linnean Soc”. Huxley & I think it best to get only about a dozen signatures and all of men who have done good scientific work.2 Hooker & Lubbock will sign—3 It will save a day’s post if you will place the memorial in the envelope addressed to Prof Flower Pres Zoolg Soc—4

Believe me my dear Prof Allman | Yours very sincerely | Ch Darwin

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1
The enclosure was the memorial to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. It has not been found, but there is a draft of it in DAR 196: 3; for a transcription, see Appendix VI.
2
Allman was president of the Linnean Society. CD and Thomas Henry Huxley had discussed the wording of the memorial when CD was in London earlier in the month (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 11 December 1880).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12922,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12922