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WCP7146

Transcription (WCP7146.8277)

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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.2 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.3 Hooker & Lubbock will sign4 It will save a day’s post if you will place the memorial in the envelope addressed to Prof Flower Pres[ident] Zool[o]g[ical] Soc[iety]5

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

1
Annotations in same hand as the letter, read: Top of page: “CD to Allman may publish”, bottom of page: “Refers to Wallace pension Original returned June 3/82”.
2
The enclosure was the memorial to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. It has not been found, but WCP6868 is a draft of it.
3
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).
4
Joseph Dalton Hooker and John Lubbock.
5
William Henry Flower was President of the Zoological Society of London.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Darwin Correspondence Project [2020-06-12] Transcription checked by Beccaloni, George [2023-12-19]

Please cite as “WCP7146,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7146