Sir,
As a Secretary to The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries I have the honor to announce that you have, at the General Meeting held this day, been unanimously elected a Foundation Fellow or "Membre Fondateur" of our Society.1
I am at the same time directed to transmit the Society's Laws and Memoirs along with the Diploma2
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient Servant
C. C. Rafn,
Secy R. S. N. A.
Copenhagen, October 23, 1860
Frederick Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.,
President of the Royal Society of Victoria
Melbourne.
That is, a member who contributed to the endowment of the Society, a life member. Mueller is listed as having contributed 100 rigsdaler, the most common amount (Antiquarisk tidsskrift, 1861, p. xxv).
See Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab to M, 23 October 1860 (in this edition as 60-10-23a).
Letterhead of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries.
Please cite as “FVM-60-10-23,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on