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To August Kanitz   3 July [1867]1

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[He informs him that he has received from Prof. Häckel the diploma of the Vienna Zoolog.-Botan. Society and thanks the correspondent for his photograph, in return for which he sends his own … ]2 I am much obliged to your for your kindness in sending me your photograph and I hope and expect that it will soon [be] the likeness of a distinguished naturalist […]

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1
The date, 3 July, was given in the sale catalogue. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 28 June 1867 (Correspondence vol. 15).
2
See Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 28 June 1867. Kanitz had sent the diploma and his photograph to Haeckel with the request that Haeckel forward these to CD. CD was elected a member of the Imperial Royal Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna on 23 May 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, Appendix III). The photograph that Kanitz sent has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
3
The letter is described in the sale catalogue as complete and two and a half pages long with an accompanying photograph of CD, signed ‘Ch. Darwin, Born 1809’.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5576F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5576F