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Summary
CD named corresponding member of the Society.
Transcription
College de Neuchatel, le 14 Mai 1863
La Soci´et´e des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel Suisse
Translation
Desiring to be associated with those men who by their work and position contribute to the realisation of its proposed aim, the advancement of different aspects of natural history, has elected at its meeting of 7 January as a corresponding member | Mr Charles Darwin | and begs him to accept this nomination as a token of its high regard.
In the name of the society | the president | Louis Coulon
the vice president, fulfilling the function of foreign secretary | E. Desor
D´esirant s’associer les hommes qui, par leurs travaux & leur position, contribuent `a r´ealiser le but qu’elle se propose, l’advancement des diff´erentes parties de l’histoire de la nature, a ´elu dans sa s´eance du 7 Janvier comme son Membre correspondant | Monsieur Charles Darwin | et le prie d’accepter cette nomination comme un t´emoignage de sa haute consid´erationf2
Au nom de la Soci´et´e, | Le Pr´esident | Louis Coulon
Le Vice Pr´esident | faisant fonction de S´ecretaire pour l'´Etrangers | E. Desor
Footnotes
- f1
- For a translation of this letter, see Appendix I. This is a printed letter with the dates, signatures, and CD’s name, added by hand.
- f2
- CD’s election as a corresponding member to the Soci´et´e des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel followed a proposal made by the vice-president Edouard Desor, at a meeting of the society on 5 December 1862, that the list of honorary members of the society be augmented to include `several persons distinguished by their scientific merit’. Desor presented a list of candidates that included, in addition to CD, Charles Fr´ed´eric Martins, Ludwig Rutimeyer, and James Dwight Dana (Bulletin Soci´et´e des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel 6 (1864): 271). The society was founded in December 1832 to provide a forum for scientific discussion (Histoire de l’instruction publique dans le Canton de Neuchatel, p. 708).