To Charles Renard 28 May 1870
Down | Beckenham | Kent
May 28 70
Sir,
I beg leave to thank you for your very courteous letter of May 20th. in which you announced to me that the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow has conferred on me the distinguished honour of electing me an Honorary Member.1 This morning I received your Diploma2
I hope that you will express on my part to the Society how deeply I feel gratified by this honour. In accordance with your suggestion I have directed my publisher to forward to your Society the last edition of my Origin of Species and my Journal of researches during the Voyage of the Beagle3
With my sincere thanks | I have the honour to remain, | Sir, | Your most obedient Servant | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Journal of researches (1860): Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle around the world, under the command of Capt. FitzRoy RN. By Charles Darwin. Reprint edition. London: John Murray. 1860.
Origin 5th ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. 5th edition, with additions and corrections. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1869.
Summary
Thanks Society for honour of his election as Honorary Member.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7206
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Physical description
- LS 1p (facsimile)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7206,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7206.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
