From the Imperial Naturalists’ Society of Moscow   17 February 1866

Auspiciis augustissimi potentissimi atque clementissimi principis

ALEXANDRI SECUNDI,

omnium russiarum

Imperatoris et Autocratoris,

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera

Societas Caesarea Naturae Curiosorum Mosquensis, conventu die XVII Februarii MDCCCLXVI anni membris suis adscripsit ordinariis virum excellentissimum, doctissimum

Doctorem Ferdinandum Müller1

 

Praeses Demetrius Lewschin

Vice-Praeses Alexander Fischer de Waldheim

Secretarii Dr. Renard

Dr J Auerbach

 
 

Under the auspices of the most august, most powerful and most merciful prince, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Auotcrat of all the Russias etc. etc. etc., the Imperial Naturalists’ Society of Moscow, assembled on 17 February 1866, enrolled among its ordinary members the most excellent and most learned Doctor Ferdinand Müller.

 

President Demetrius Lewschin

Vice-President Alexander Fischer von Waldheim

Secretaries Dr. Renard

Dr J. Auerbach2

 
1
M’s name has been set in type and printed on the certificate.
2

M was elected on the presentation of the two secretaries Charles Renard and Jean Auerbach at the meeting 17 February 1866. See Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (1866) vol. 39, pt 1, p. 25.

See also C. Renard to M, 2 March 1866, and M to the Imperial Naturalists’ Society of Moscow, 1866 (in this edition as 66-00-00j).

Please cite as “FVM-66-02-17,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-02-17