Breslau den 1 September 1857.
An | Herrn Professor Dr. John Tyndall | Wohlgeboren | zu | London.
Von Dr. Berthold Seemann und Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker zur Aufnahme in die Kaiserl. Academie der Naturforscher vorgeschlagen, ersuchen wir Ew. Wohlgeboren, zur Ausfertigung des Diploms, uns baldmöglichst alle Ihre Taufnamen, Doctorgrad, Titel, Aemter und Würden, Ort u. Tag der Geburt, sowie alle Mitgliedschaften von gelehrten Gesellschaften und wissenschaftlichen Vereinen vollständig und womöglich deutsch, einzusenden und beharren hochachtungs- und verehrungsvoll
Ew. Wohlgeboren | Die Academie der Naturforscher.
Breslau,1 1 September 1857.
To | Professor Dr John Tyndall | Esquire | at | London.
Proposed by Dr Berthold Seemann2 and Dr Joseph Dalton Hooker for admission to the Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists,3 we request You Sir to submit to us as soon as possible, in full and if possible in German, for the drawing up of the certificate, all your given names, doctoral degree, titles, offices and honours, place and day of birth, as well as all memberships of learned societies and scientific associations, and remain faithfully and respectfully,
Sir | The Academy of Natural Scientists.
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Breslau: present-day Wrocław, Poland. During the nineteenth century the city was known as Breslau and was within Silesia, Prussia.
Dr Berthold Seemann: Berthold Seemann (1825–71), a German botanist. The previous year, Hooker and Seemann had recommended Tyndall for membership in the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino Carolina Naturae Curiosorum, or Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, abbreviated as Leopoldina (see letter 1305). Seemann, himself elected in 1852, received an honorary doctor from the Philosophical Faculty of Gottingen in 1853 and soon after was appointed as adjunct for the Leopoldina (ADB).
Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists: see n. 2.
Please cite as “Tyndall1427,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on