FORM OF RECOMMENDATION
FOR A FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON1
Aug 8. 1884
We the undersigned beg to recommend:
Cuthbert Robert Blackett2 Esq., J.P., President of the Victorian Board of Pharmacy and Examiner in Materia medica and Botany at the pharmaceutic School, Melbourne, for the honor of the fellowship of the Linnean Society, for which he is eminently fitted.
Ferd. von Mueller, Ph.&M.D., FLS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.LS.
Robt D Fitzgerald, F.L.S.3
The printed text, glued to the top left of the letter, and a copy of the Coat of Arms of the Society glued to the letter at the left of the signatures, have been cut from a formal recommendation form.
Name underlined in crayon.
Annotated bottom front: Certificate read at General Meeting 19th March 1885 Ballot will take place on 16th April 1885. BDJ [B. D. Jackson]; front top: Not Joined struck out C Min 1/11/88; back: Cuthbert Robert Blackett elected April 1885 not joined [i.e. Blackett did not pay his fees].
M autograph manuscript and signature; other supporters' individual signatures.
Please cite as “FVM-84-08-08,” 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