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
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