To C. L. van der Burg [after 15 July 1880]1
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous letter in which you announce that the Kon. Natuurkund. Vereeniging in N.-I. has conferred on to me the distinguished honour of being a corresponding m; & for this h. I return my very sincere thanks2
I have the hr. to remain | Sir | Your obliged & obed sevt | Charles Darwin
To the | President
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from C. L. van der Burg and H. Cretier, 15 July 1880.
See letter from C. L. van der Burg and H. Cretier, 15 July 1880 and n. 2. CD had been elected a corresponding member of the Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indië (Royal Scientific Society in the Dutch East Indies).
Summary
Thanks for the honour of election.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12657
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Cornelis Leendert van der Burg
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 107v
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12657,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 28
letter
