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Darwin Correspondence Project

From American Academy of Arts and Sciences   28 January 1874

Boston, Massachusetts,

January 28th. 1874

To | Charles Darwin M.A.

Dear Sir,

We have the honor to inform you that you were this day elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the Section Geology, Mineralogy and Physics of the Globe to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of our late Associate, Philippe E. P. de Verneuil1

Charles Francis Adams President. | Josiah P. Cook Jn2 | Corresponding Secretary.

Footnotes

Josiah Parsons Cooke. For the diploma, see Appendix III.

Summary

CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9257A
From
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Boston
Source of text
DAR 230: 37
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9257A,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9257A.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22

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