To the Royal Geographical Society   13 February 1882

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

J. G. Macdonald

Description

Author of a Journal of an Expedition from Port Denison to the Gulf of Carpentaria & back1

Residence

Resident Magistrate of Springsure, Queensland

 

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 13th day of Febry 1882

 

(Signed) Ferd: von Mueller2

F.R.G.S

{ From personal knowledge

John Coles.

F.R.G.S



F.R.G.S.


 

Proposed

February 13

1882

Elected

February 27th

18823

 
Macdonald (1865).
Not M’s autograph signature; name in the hand that completed the certificate (John Coles?).
MS annotation: Removed 1901.

Please cite as “FVM-82-02-13b,” 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/82-02-13b