To the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften [after 20 July 1875]1
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 20th enclosing my Diploma as Honorary Mem of Imp. Acad of Sciences &c.2 I hope that you will take an early opportunity of expressing to the Academy my high senses of this most distinguished honour.
With great respect, I remain | Sir | Your obliged & obedient servt | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 20 July 1875.
See letter from the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 20 July 1875, and Appendix III.
Summary
Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10083
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 97: C8v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10083,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10083.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
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