To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 16 March 1863
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
March 16th 1863
Honoured Sir!
I beg leave to acknowledge your letter, received this morning, in which you announce to me the distinguished honour conferred on me, by my election as a corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin.—1
With my sincere thanks for this great honour | I beg leave to remain | Sir | Your most obedient servant | Charles Darwin
To the Secretary | Royal Acad. of Sciences
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
Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4043
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4043,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4043.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11