From Ferdinand Stoliczka 21 June 1871
Asiatic Society of Bengal, | Asiatic Society’s Rooms, | Calcutta
21st. June 1871
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that at the General Meeting of this Society, held on the 7th. June 1871, you were elected an Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.1 It is a great pleasure to me to communicate this information to you on the part of the Council of the Asiatic Society.
I also take pleasure in informing you that the publications of this Society for the current year have been forwarded to your address, and I shall continue to transmit to you the Society’s publications in the same way, unless you desire to point out an agency who would receive them on your behalf.2
I have the honor to be, | Sir, | Your obedient Servant, | Ferd. Stoliczka | Hony. Secy. Asiatic Society of Bengal.
To | Charles Darwin, Esquire, | M.A, F.R.S. & G.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7829A
- From
- Ferdinand Stoliczka
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Calcutta
- Source of text
- DAR 230: 26
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7829A,” accessed on 12 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7829A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
