From G. E. Bearpark 12 February 1841
74 East Street, Leeds.
February 12, 1841.
Sir,
Please to inform me on what conditions you admit Members into your Society? What Titles you confer on them? & What Fees are to be paid?1 and you will much oblige,
Yours respectfully, | Geo. E. Bearpark, Surgeon.
“To Charles Darwin Esqre. | Secretary of the Geological Society, London.”
Footnotes
No reply has been found to this letter; there is no record of Bearpark’s becoming a member of the Geological Society of London. CD formally resigned the secretaryship of the society in February 1841, but had ceased to be active the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to the President and Council of the Geological Society of London, 24 March 1840 and n. 3).
Summary
Requesting information about membership of the Geological Society of London.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-587F
- From
- George Edmundson Bearpark
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leeds
- Source of text
- Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/6/126)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 587F,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 30 (Supplement)
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