From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin1 26 February 1863
[Enclosure]
REGIA SCIENTIARUM ACADEMIA BORUSSICA
Virum eruditissimum suisque titulis condecorandum
CAROLUM DARWIN
in Epistolarum de re litteraria commercium, cum classe potissimum physica et mathematica cooptat, et, quoties aliquid augendis et promovendis studiis optimis quibusque inserviens aut ab ipso repertum aut aliunde cognitum habebit, ut illud secum humaniter communicet, invitat.
Datum Berolini d. 26 Febr: a. MDCCCLXIII.
Classis physicae et mathematicae Secretarii:
Joannes Franciscus Encke2
Christianus Godofr. Ehrenberg3
[Translation]
THE ROYAL PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Elects the most learned man, who is to be graced with its titles,
CHARLES DARWIN
to a correspondence on matters of learning, especially in the department of physics and mathematics, and, whenever he either himself discovers, or learns from elsewhere, of something serving the expansion and promotion of the best studies, it invites him kindly to communicate the same to itself.
Despatched at Berlin, 26 Febr: 1863
The secretaries of the department of physics and mathematics:
Johann Franz Encke^2^
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg^3^
Footnotes
Bibliography
Harnack, Adolf. 1900. Geschichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin im Auftrage der Akademie bearbeitet. 3 vols. in 4. Berlin: gedruckt in der Reichsdruckerei.
Summary
A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4014F
- From
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Berlin
- Source of text
- DAR 229: 50a
- Physical description
- D
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4014F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4014F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11
