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Darwin Correspondence Project

To Società dei Naturalisti di Modena   8 February 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Feb.8.76

Dear Sir

I beg leave to thank you for your very kind letter, & I request that you will express to the Society of Naturalists in Modena my sincere thanks for the honour which they have been so good as to confer on me.1 In accordance with you request I enclose my photograph

I have the honour to remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

The letter has not been found, but the diploma awarding CD honorary membership in the Society of Naturalists of Modena, dated 20 December 1875, is in DAR 229: 46 (see Correspondence vol. 23, Appendix III).

Bibliography

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

Summary

Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10383F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Società dei Naturalisti di Modena
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10383F,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10383F.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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