FORM OF RECOMMENDATION
FOR A FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON1
We the undersigned beg to recommend
Stuart Carey2 Esqr, Gov. Surveyor, Perth, West Australia,
for the honor of the Fellowship of the Linnean Society, he being well worthy of this distinction by his zealous observations on the vegetation of Western Australia during his surveys on the Great Bight and also latterly near Sharks Bay
Note Mr Stuart Carey is a native of West Austr., where his father is a member of the Legislature3
Ferd von Mueller, Ph. & M.D., FLS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.
Robt D Fitzgerald, F.L.S.4
The heading has been cut from a formal recommendation form and glued to the top of the letter.
Stuart Carey is underlined in pencil.
Mr Stuart … Legislature is written on a separate slip of paper pinned to the letter. M's assertion that Carey was born in WA is an error; he arrived there from Ireland as a child.
Annotated bottom left margin: Read at General Meeting 4 Dec 1884 Ballot will take place 15 January 1885.
top front, in pencil, apparently in later hand: Ob wanting.
Back: Stuart Carey Esq elected 15 Jan 1885.
To have been read in early December, the letter must have been sent by October; it has been numbered accordingly.
M's autograph MS and signature; other supporters' individual signatures.
Please cite as “FVM-84-10-00,” 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