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From Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation1   10 January 1862

Paris,

le 10 janvier 1862

Monsieur et cher Confrère,

J’ai l’honneur de vous annoncer que la Société impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation se réunira le vendredi 14 février, à 3 heures précises, rue de Lille, 19, et procédera au renouvellement annuel du Bureau et d’un tiers du Conseil.2

Aux termes du règlement, les Membres absents sont invités à envoyer leur bulletin de vote à M. le Secrétaire général, au siége de la Société, avant le ⁠⟨⁠    ⁠⟩⁠ ⁠⟨⁠fé⁠⟩⁠vrier (voir ci-contre).

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur et cher Confrère, l’assurance de ma considération très distinguée.

Le Secrétaire Général, | Comte D’Éprémesnil.3

Footnotes

For a translation of this letter, see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix I.
The Société d’Acclimatation had as its aim the acclimatisation of exotic species of plants and animals to Europe (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1857, Osborne 1987). The society was founded by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1854. CD was admitted to membership at the meeting of the society held on 17 February 1860 (Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 7 (1860): 100).
Jacques Louis Raoul Duval d’Eprémesnil.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1857. Discours d’ouverture du président de la société. Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 4 (1857): xxv–xxxiv.

Osborne, Michael Andrew. 1987. The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the new French Empire: the science and political economy of economic zoology during the Second Empire. (PhD dissertation: University of Wisconsin.)

Translation

From Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation1   10 January 1862

Paris,

10 January 1862

Sir and dear colleague,

I have the honour of informing you that the Imperial Zoological Society of Acclimatisation will be meeting on Friday the 14th of February at 3’o clock precisely, in 19, rue de Lille, and will proceed with the annual elections of the board and of a third of the Council.2

According to regulations, absent members are invited to send their ballot to the General Secretary at the Society headquarters before the ⁠⟨⁠   ⁠⟩⁠ February (see opposite).

Please accept, sir and dear colleague, the expression of my highest esteem.

The General Secretary, | Comte D’Éprémesnil.3

Footnotes

For the transcription of this letter in its original French, see pp. 10–11.
The Société d’Acclimatation had as its aim the acclimatisation of exotic species of plants and animals to Europe (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1857, Osborne 1987). The society was founded by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1854. CD was admitted to membership at the meeting of the society held on 17 February 1860 (Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 7 (1860): 100).
Jacques Louis Raoul Duval d’Eprémesnil.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1857. Discours d’ouverture du président de la société. Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 4 (1857): xxv–xxxiv.

Osborne, Michael Andrew. 1987. The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the new French Empire: the science and political economy of economic zoology during the Second Empire. (PhD dissertation: University of Wisconsin.)

Summary

Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-3379
From
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Paris
Source of text
DAR 96: 11v
Physical description
D 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3379,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3379.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 10

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