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Charles Darwin Esq MA of Christ's College Cambridge, a gentleman who volunteered as a naturalist to accompany Captain Fitz Roy in the Beagle in his surveys in South America & the Pacific Ocean & who is well acquainted with geology, botany, zoology & many other branches of Natural Knowledge, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, we whose names are subscribed do, of our personal knowledge recommend him as a proper person to become a Fellow thereof & as likely to prove a useful & valuable member.

Elected

Jan. 24: 1839 RUR

Read 22. Nov. 1838. 1. Decr. 6 2. Decr. 13. 3. Decr. 20 4. Jany. 10, 1839. 5. Jany. 17,

 

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