34 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES i876- 



From C. Darwin to G. J. Bomanes. 



Down, Beckenham, Kent : Sept. 24. 



I shall be very glad to propose you for Linnean 

 Soc, as I have just done for my son Francis. There 

 is no doubt about your election. I have written for 

 blank form. Please let me have your title, B.A. or 

 M.A., and title of any book or papers, to which I could 

 add 'various contributions to "Nature." ' Also shall 

 I say ' attached to Physiology and Zoology ' ? When 

 I have signed whole, shall I send a paper to Hooker 

 and others at Kew ; or do you wish it sent to some one 

 else for signature ? Three signatures are required. 

 The paper will have to be read twice or thrice when 

 Soc. meets in November. But you could get books 

 out of library or out of that of Eoyal Soc. by my 

 signature or that of any other member. 



I am terribly sorry about the onions, as I expected 

 great things from them, the seeds coming, I believe, 

 always true. As tubers of potatoes graft so well, 

 would it not be good to try other tubers as of dahlias 

 and other plants ? I have been re-writing a large 

 portion of the chapter on Pangenesis, and it has been 

 awfully hard work. I will, of course, send you a copy 

 when the work is printed. How I do hope that your 

 fowls will survive ! P. Galton was here for a few hours 

 yesterday ; I see that he is much less sceptical about 

 Pangenesis than he was. 



Dunskaith, Nigg, Boss-shire, N.B., Sept. 29, 1875. 



My dear Mr. Darwin, — Many thanks for your kind 

 letter. I am an M.A. and a fellow of the Philosophi- 

 cal Society of Cambridge, but otherwise I am nothing, 



