To C. S. Vesselofski 4 March 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
Mar 4 | 1868
Sir
I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Jan. 3. in which you announce to me that the Imperial Academy of Sciences has done me the honour of electing me a corresponding member in the Section of Biology.1 I assure you that I feel deeply sensible of this most distinguished honour.
I beg leave to remain | Sir | your most obedient servant | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5976
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5976,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5976.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16