To August Kanitz 3 July [1867]1
[Down.]
[He informs him that he has received from Prof. Häckel the diploma of the Vienna Zoolog.-Botan. Society and thanks the correspondent for his photograph, in return for which he sends his own … ]2 I am much obliged to your for your kindness in sending me your photograph and I hope and expect that it will soon [be] the likeness of a distinguished naturalist […]
Footnotes
The date, 3 July, was given in the sale catalogue. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 28 June 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
See Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 28 June 1867. Kanitz had sent the diploma and his photograph to Haeckel with the request that Haeckel forward these to CD. CD was elected a member of the Imperial Royal Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna on 23 May 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, Appendix III). The photograph that Kanitz sent has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5576F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- August Kanitz
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp; inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5576F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5576F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
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