To W. A. Leighton 1 December 1840
12 Upper Gower St
December 1st. 1840
Sir
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, announcing to me, that I have been elected an Honorary Member of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.— I should be much obliged, if you would on the first fitting occasion, express my high sense of the honour, which has been done me, by the Members of the Philosophical Institution of my native Town.
I sincerely trust, it may long prosper and spread that taste for the Natural Sciences, to which it owes its foundation.
I beg permission to deposit in the Library copies of two small papers, which have lately been published in the last Volume of the Geological Transactions.1
I have the honour to remain | Sir | Your obliged and obedient servant | Charles Darwin To | W. Allport Leigton Esqre.—
Hon. Sec & Cur | of | the Shropshire Nat Hist. & Antiq. Soc.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
‘Formation of mould’: On the formation of mould. [Read 1 November 1837.] Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2d ser. 5 (1840): 505–9. [Shorter publications, pp. 124–7.]
Summary
Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-584
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Allport Leighton
- Sent from
- London, Upper Gower St, 12
- Source of text
- Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 584,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-584.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2
