Emil Dessewffy¹ and Ferenc Toldy² to Faraday   20 January 1859

MAGYAR AKADEMIA. | Academia Scientiarvm Hvngarica.

Illustri Viro Michaeli Faradayo S[alve].

Academia Scientiarum Hungarica, auctoritate Imperatoris Regis Hungariae Apostolici Aenuo Saracita, in concilio die XVI mensis Decembris Anni praeteriti habito, Te Vir insignis ob immortalia in doctrinas physicas merita Sua, unanimis votis in collegium membrorum Suorun correspondentium cooptavit; Archidux vero Serenissimus Albertus³, Regni Gubernator actum hunc die XVIII instem mensis ratum habuit.

Sit Tibi, Vir Illustris, electio haec testies eximii cultus, quo in Nomen Tuum iusta laude celebratum Academia haec fertur.

Deus vero O[ptimus].M[aximus]. vitae Tuae in augmen, tum liteiarum propitius faveat.

Scripsimus Pesthini in Hungaria, XX die Jannarii Anni M.DCCC.LIX

[word illegible] Comes Dessewffy | Praeses.

Franciscus Toldy | Ac Hung. ab epistolis

Faraday Miháhy

TRANSLATION<qr>Hungarian Academy. | Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

To the illustrious Michael Faraday, greetings.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, by the authority of the Apostolic King of Hungary Aenuo Saracita, in a council held on the sixteenth day of the month of December of last year, by a unanimous vote elected you into the fellowship of its corresponding members, [which it did], distinguished Sir, on account of your immortal services to physics; and the Most Serene Archduke Albrecht⁴, the Governor of the Kingdom, has ratified this act on the eighteenth day of the present month.

Let this election, illustrious Sir, be a witness to you of the exceptional esteem in which this Academy holds your justly praised and celebrated name.

May God, the Best and Greatest, look upon your life with favour for the increase of learning

We have written [this] in Pest in Hungary, on the twentieth day of January of the year 1859.

[word illegible] Count Dessewffy | President.

Fernec Toldy | Hungarian Academy. By letters.

Faraday Miháhy