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To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin   16 March 1863

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Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Date:  16 Mar 1863
Classmark:  Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4043

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From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin   26 February 1863

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A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.

Author:  Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 229: 50a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4014F

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  • … From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin    26 February 1863
  • … DAR 229: 50a Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Berlin 26 Feb 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • ROYAL PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Elects the most learned man, who is to be graced with its titles, CHARLES DARWIN to a correspondence on matters of learning, especially in the department of physics and mathematics, and, whenever he either himself discovers, or learns from elsewhere, of something serving the expansion and promotion of the best studies, it invites him kindly to communicate the same to itself. Despatched at Berlin, 26 Febr: 1863

To Richard Kippist   31 March [1866]

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Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Kippist
Date:  31 Mar [1866]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5042

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To J. D. Hooker   22 December [1865]

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Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.

Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.

Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 Dec [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 278, 278b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4953

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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of  The variation of …