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To William Preyer   25 January 1878

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Jan. 25, 1878.

My dear Sir

I thank you sincerely for your very kind letter, and I hope that you will express to the members of your Society how deeply sensible I am of the honour which they have conferred on me by electing me one of their honorary members.1

With much respect | I remain, my dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin

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Preyer had successfully proposed CD for honorary membership of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Jena (Medical and Natural Sciences Society of Jena) in celebration of his seventieth birthday (Preyer 1891, pp. 379–80; CD was 69 in 1878). Preyer’s letter has not been found.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11331,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11331