To the Royal Geographical Society   22 January 1877

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Rev G Brown

Title

Residence

Hepburn Street, Auckland, New Zealand
 

Being desirous of admission into the ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, We, the undersigned, recommend him as likely to become a useful and valuable Fellow.

 

Dated this 22nd day of January 18771

 

(Signed) Ferd. von Müller2

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

Arthur Russell

F.R.G.S.

Clements R Markham

F.R.G.S.
 

Proposed

22 Jan 1877

Elected

February 12th 18773
 
1
See also Certificate dated 14 May 1877. Brown appears to have been put forward for election twice. When Brown first went to New Zealand he lived with his uncle by marriage, Rev. Thomas Buddle. Wise’s directory of New Zealand for the years 1875-6lists two Buddle households in Hepburn Street, Auckland, one ‘Thos. Buddle’. In late 1876 and part of 1877 Brown was on furlough with time in New Zealand, but he returned to mission duties by mid-year (G. Brown [1908], pp. 219–23). See also M to H. Rawlinson, 3 November 1874 (in this edition as 74-11-03a).
2
Not M’s autograph signature; name in the hand that completed the certificate.
3
Annotated Died 1904 and Removed April 1904. The date of death is in error: Brown died on 7 April 1917. For a letter signed by the Secretaries, Clements Markham and R. H. Major, and dated 14 February 1877, informing Brown that he had been elected a Fellow of the Society, see A1686/22, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

Please cite as “FVM-77-01-22,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/77-01-22