To Raphael Meldola   5 February 1882

Dear M^r. Meldola

I have asked M^r Murray to send a copy of my worm-book to you, marked for the Club.—¹

I shall be happy to propose you for the R. Soc, but I require a good deal of information. No, I believe the best plan will be to enclose a paper for you to fill up the blanks.— It is usual to give a pretty full list of all publications.²

You are probably aware that no one on the Council can sign & I know personally wonderfully few scientific men. I must therefore get you to suggest names & addresses of some chemists, physicists & naturalists (& there is no impropriety in your doing this), amounting to 6 in number of whom 3 must personally know you. I can suggest only M^r Stainton & Sir J. Lubbock; but whether they will sign I cannot say as some men are very chary of their signatures. So I had better have 6 or 7 names besides my own.—³

I suppose that you are aware that very rarely anyone is elected until the 2^d or 3^d year.—⁴

My dear Sir | In Haste | Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Very many thanks for your kind note