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To C. L. van der Burg   [after 15 July 1880]1

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your courteous letter in which you announce that the Kon. Natuurkund. Vereeniging in N.-I. has conferred on to me the distinguished honour of being a corresponding m; & for this h. I return my very sincere thanks2

I have the hr. to remain | Sir | Your obliged & obed sevt | Charles Darwin

To the | President

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1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from C. L. van der Burg and H. Cretier, 15 July 1880.
2
See letter from C. L. van der Burg and H. Cretier, 15 July 1880 and n. 2. CD had been elected a corresponding member of the Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indië (Royal Scientific Society in the Dutch East Indies).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 in] after del ‘together’
1.2 that] after del ‘to me’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12657,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12657