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 |
11th November |
1878 |
| Elected |
25th Nov-. |
18782 |
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 Milroy (M to the Royal Geographical Society, July 1890 (in this edition as 90-07-00b)), 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