To the Royal Geographical Society   4 September 1878

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Revd William Potter

Title


Residence

Emerald Hill, Near Melbourne

 

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 4th day of Sept. 1878

 

(Signed) Ferd Von Mueller M.D. 1

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

Rawson W Rawson

F.R.G.S



F.R.G.S


 

Proposed

11 th November

187 8

Elected

25th Nov-.

187 8 2

 
 
Not M’s autograph signature; name in the hand that completed the certificate. See M to Lord Arthur Russell, 28 June 1878.

Annotated: Removed 1894 | 1890

Potter appears to have been removed from Fellowship, reinstated and removed again. Although his name appears in the Fellows list for 1890 and later, his signature was deleted from the certificate for T Stanley Milray (M to the Royal Geographical Society, August 1890, in this edition as 90-08-00), and the name of a Council member, C. E. Peek, substituted; his name was also removed from the certificate for L. L. Smith (M to Royal Geographical Society, 28 January 1891). His name does not appear in the list for 1895.

Please cite as “FVM-78-09-04,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-09-04