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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Emil du Bois-Reymond   23 January 1879

Down, Beckenham

Jan 23. 1879

Sir,

I beg leave to acknowledge the safe receipt of my Diploma as one of the fellows of the Academy of Sciences of Prussia.1 I hope that you will be so good as to express to your Academy my deep sense of this honour, which is one of the greatest that any Scientific man can receive.

I beg leave to remain | Sir | Your obliged & obedient servant | Charles Darwin

Perpetual Secretary | Academy of Sciences

Footnotes

The letter to which this is a reply has not been found, but see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from Emil du Bois-Reymond, 7 November 1878, and this volume, letter from W. E. Darwin, 9 January 1879. Academy of Sciences of Prussia: Königliche Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften. For the diploma, see Correspondence vol. 26, Appendix III.

Summary

Acknowledges receipt of diploma.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11842
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Emil Heinrich (Emil) Du Bois-Reymond
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11842,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11842.xml

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