To G. C. Druce 25 April 1876
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
[Ap]ril 25 1876
Dear Sir
I beg leave to return my very sincere thanks to the members of the Nat. Soc. & Club of Northampton for the honour which they have done me by electing me as a member.1 I hope that the Socy may long flourish & continue to spread a love of the natural Sciences in the neighbourhood.
I remain Dear Sir | Your obliged & faithful servant | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Druce, George Claridge. 1918. Formation of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society. Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society 19: 131–42.
Wake, Joan. 1952. The early days of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society. Northamptonshire Past and Present 1 (5): 39–52.
Summary
Thanks Naturalist Society and Club of Northampton for his election.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10427
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Claridge Druce
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Sherardian Library of Plant Taxonomy, One of the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford (Druce Archives 5.0.1)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10427,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10427.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
