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To H. B. Tristram   3 March [1874]

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

March 3d

My dear Sir

I thank you sincerely for all the great trouble which you have taken for Mr. Swinhoe & self. I have got another certificate & will send my servant up to London tomorrow & do my best to get the six signatures. It must be delivered on Thursday at the Royal Socy.—1

Again apologising for all the trouble which I have caused, & thanking you, I remain, | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Postmark: MR 3 74

1
The signed certificate proposing that Robert Swinhoe be elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London had been lost in the post (see letter to secretary, Royal Society of London, 2 March [1874]); evidently CD obtained six signatures on the new certificate as Swinhoe’s candidacy was announced at the meeting of 5 March 1874 (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 228). Swinhoe was not elected a fellow in 1874, but was successful when proposed again in 1876 (see Record of the Royal Society of London).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9330,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9330