To C. S. Vesselofski 4 March 1868

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

Mar 4 | 1868

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Jan. 3. in which you announce to me that the Imperial Academy of Sciences has done me the honour of electing me a corresponding member in the Section of Biology.¹ I assure you that I feel deeply sensible of this most distinguished honour.

I beg leave to remain | Sir | your most obedient servant | Charles Darwin

See letter from C. S. Vesselofski, 3 January 1868 and nn. 3 and 4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5976,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5976

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Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-5976
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
Date: 4 Mar 1868
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r)
Physical description: 2pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16.

To C. S. Vesselofski 4 March 1868

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