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From William Reeves   10 April 1866

Royal Irish Academy, | 19 Dawson Street, | Dublin

April 10. 1866

Sir

I am directed to inform you that, at the Stated General Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, held on the 16th. March last, you were elected an Honorary Member of the same, in the department of Science.

A formal Diploma of the appointment will presently be forwarded to you.1

I have the honour to remain | Sir | your obedient humble Servant | William Reeves, D. D. | Secretary

Charles Darwin Esqre.

1
The diploma has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. For a list of CD’s honorary memberships, see Freeman 1978, pp. 107–10.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5053A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5053A