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To Menyhért Lónyay   [after 11 June 1872]1

Sir

I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your obliging letter of June 11th. in which you announce to me that the H. A. of Sc. has conferred on me the d. h. of electing me a f. member.—2 I have received the D. & beg permission to return my sincere thanks.3

I have the h. to remain | Sir | your obd svt

To the P. of the H. Acad. of Sciences.

ADraft

1
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872.
2
See letter from Menyhért Lónyay, 11 June 1872. H. A. of Sc.: Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
3
For a transcription and translation of the diploma, see Correspondence vol. 20, Appendix III.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.1 obliging] above del illeg
1.1 of June 11th] after del ‘together with the Diploma.’
1.3 permission] after del ‘to’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8383,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8383