To William Preyer 25 January 1878
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Jan. 25, 1878.
My dear Sir
I thank you sincerely for your very kind letter, and I hope that you will express to the members of your Society how deeply sensible I am of the honour which they have conferred on me by electing me one of their honorary members.1
With much respect | I remain, my dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Preyer had successfully proposed CD for honorary membership of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Jena (Medical and Natural Sciences Society of Jena) in celebration of his seventieth birthday (Preyer 1891, pp. 379–80; CD was 69 in 1878). Preyer’s letter has not been found.
Bibliography
Preyer, William. 1891. Briefe von Darwin. Deutsche Rundschau 67: 356–90.
Summary
Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11331
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Thierry (William) Preyer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 269
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11331,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11331.xml
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