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To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   29 December 1880

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Dec 29th 1880

My dear Dr Burdon Sanderson.

If you would not object to sign the enclosed certificate for my son Francis, it would greatly please him & me.— But you must not think of doing so if you doubt about the propriety of his candidateship.1

I enclose an addressed envelope. & remain | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Please enclose a slip of paper with the date of your Lecture at R. Institution.—2

1
Burdon Sanderson’s signature appears on Francis Darwin’s certificate of proposal for fellowship of the Royal Society of London; Francis was elected on 8 June 1882 (Royal Society archives, GB 117 EC/1882/09).
2
Burdon Sanderson read his lecture on ‘Excitability in plants and animals’ at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 February 1881 (Nature, 9 December 1880, p. 130).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

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