Letter no. 41 - Letter no. 99

London, 14th Feb. 1848 My dear Thomson I then may congratulate you at last on coming to your Kingdom but write you also for another purpose. When I last saw you you expressed a wish to join the Royal Society and on mentioning your name to some influential members, they expressed a corresponding wish to see you among themA new method of admitting members is now in force and according to the new law the names of all candidates of this year must be given in before the first meeting in March so that there is no time to be lost. The entrance money is £10 and the annual subscription £4. for which you may compound by a payment of£60 in addition to the £10. in all £70. but ifyou have given a paper which is printed in the Ph[ilosophical] Trans[actionsJ. £20 is deducted from the composition money so that you have your choice of paying the annual subscription for a year or two in expectation of sending a paper or of clearing off all at once. You had better send me a list of your publications with the place and date for although I know them you can furnish me with a correct list with less trouble than I can make it for myselfI should not think of mentioning in the nomination paper more than two or three or your chief memoirs but it will be well to remind me of them all. [William] Baly called on me to ask after your place in Edin. but he will not move till he learns Reid's ultimatum I have written to Reid to ask himSyme is well and hearty he went his round at the Hospital today for the first time but he will not begin lecturing for a few daysHe has been anxiously looked for by the students who are all glad he is come. Tell me how you would like your copy of Quain's Arteries -I presume not folded and merely loose in a portfolio so that you can use them singly in LecturesYou showed me a plan you had made of the fasciculi of the medulla oblongata could you favour me with a copy? Or with the original for a week or two that I may have it enlarged as a diagram and then return it. Yours very sincerely W Sharpey Dr Allen Thomson