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To Quintino Sella   4 December 1875

Down, Beckenham, Kent.

Dec 4 1875

Sir

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your very obliging letter of November the 28th together with the Diploma of the “Reale Accademia de Lincei”.1

I request that you will inform the Academy how deeply I feel the distinguished honour of being elected a Foreign Associate.

It is peculiarly gratifying to me to have been thus honoured by the chief Scientific Society of the Italian nation in the eternal city of Rome.

With the greatest respect I beg leave to remain, | Sir | Your obedient & grateful servant | Charles R. Darwin

Al Presidente | R. Accad. de’Lincei

LS(A)

1
See letter from Quintino Sella, 28 November 1875, which accompanied a decree confirming CD’s election as a foreign member of the section of physical, mathematical, and natural sciences of the Accademia de’ Lincei of Rome.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

4.1 With …Lincei 5.1] in CD’s hand

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10288F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10288F