To L. A. J. Quetelet [after 15 December 1870]1
I beg leave to acknowledge your very obliging letter, & to return very sincere thanks for the distinguished honour conferred on me by my election as an associate of your the Royal Academy of Science2
I beg the leave to remain | your most obedient | & obliged servant Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from L. A. J. Quetelet, 15 December 1870.
CD refers to the letter from L. J. A. Quetelet, 15 December 1870, and his election as an associate of the science section of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts of Belgium.
Summary
Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7393
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 175: 12v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p (on 7390)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7393,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7393.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
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