From Emil du Bois-Reymond 7 November 1878
Berlin N. W. | 15 Neue Wilhelm Strasse
November 7th, 1878
My dear Sir,
I have great pleasure in announcing to you that you were to-day elected a foreign associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences. My proposal was seconded by Ewald, Helmholtz, Peters, Pringsheim and Virchow. As the election requires the sanction of His Majesty the Emperor and King, a few weeks will elapse before you receive the official notification and diploma.1
I also send you, by this post, a copy of an address of which you are the ‘hero’, and in which I have endeavoured to give expression to my ‘worship’. You told me once that nothing short of dire compulsion could make you read german, and I cannot therefore hope that you will read my paper. A translation of it, however, is about to appear in the New York Periodical, Popular Science Monthly. Though very unsatisfactory, it can at least convey an idea of my strain of thought.2
Believe me, my dear Sir, | Yours, sincerely, | E du Bois Reymond.
Charles Darwin, Esqre.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil. 1876. Darwin versus Galiani. Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald.
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil. 1879. Darwin vs. Galiani. Popular Science Monthly 14: 409–25.
Summary
CD elected foreign associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences [K. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften].
EdB-R’s paper will be available in English in the New York periodical, Popular Science Monthly, and he hopes CD will read it. [See 11742 and 11842.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11739A
- From
- Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Berlin
- Source of text
- DAR 230: 68
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11739A,” accessed on
