To J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand 12 August [1878]1
[Abinger Hall, Surrey.]
Gentlemen
I acknowledge & thank you for the honour of your letter of Augt 5th in which you inform me that the Academy of Sciences has been pleased to elect me one of the corresponding members.2 I request that you will be so good as express to the Academy my acknowledgement of the honour thus conferred on me & I remain | Gentlemen | Your obliged & obedient Servt | Charles Darwin
Aug 12th
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878.
Letter from J.-B. Dumas and Joseph Bertrand, 5 August 1878. A note on the back of the draft in CD’s hand reads in part: ‘Member of most of the scientific societies of Europe: Knight of the Prussian order “Pour le merite”’; the note includes basic biographical information. It is not known whether the information was added to the letter that was sent.
Summary
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11653
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Jean-Baptiste-André (Jean-Baptiste) Dumas; Joseph Louis François (Joseph) Bertrand
- Sent from
- Leith Hill Place
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 21
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11653,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11653.xml
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