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From J. D. Hooker to Charles Lyell   30 March 1872

Royal Gardens Kew

March 30 /72

My dear Lyell

Prof Braun of Berlin has urged me to procure signatures to the enclosed approval of the new rules for the Leopold: Acad:1

Braun is so sound & good a man that I have no hesitation in signing a similar copy to that enclosed, & returning it as addressed.

If you do not object to sign enclosed copy, please do so, & forward it with this note

its to C. Darwin to sign, who will post the paper to Dresden as addressed2

Ever yrs | Jos D Hooker

1
Hooker refers to the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Germanica Naturae Curiosorum (the German academy of sciences), known as Leopoldina. The new rules were introduced in order to establish a permanent home for the academy, which, since its inception, had moved its location to wherever the current president was based. As part of the reorganisation, in 1872 the new post of deputy (Stellvertreter) was created and Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun was chosen for the post (see Berg und Kaasch 2010).
2
CD became a member of Leopoldina in 1857; it was the first foreign society to elect CD to membership (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Secretary, Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina, 8 September [1857] and n. 2).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8261,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8261