We the undersigned propose:
Thomas Gulliver2 Esq.
Director of the Telegraph Department, Forrestville, Ql[d.]3 for the honor of the fellowship of the Linnean Society, he being well deserving of this distinction by his zealous exertions for the furtherance of Zoology and Botany in New Guinea and Queensland.
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D., F.LS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.
Robt D Fitzgerald, F.L.S.4
It is not known when the letter was sent; to have been read in early April it must have been sent by February 1885 and has been numbered accordingly.
Name underlined in crayon.
Annotated bottom front:Read at a General Meeting of the Society 5th March 1885 The Ballot will take place 2nd April 1885 BDJ [B. D. Jackson]; top front: Not joined struck out C min 1/11/88; back: Thomas Gulliver Elected April 1885 not joined [i.e. Gulliver did not pay the required membership fee].
See also M to B. Daydon Jackson, 1 January 1855 (in this edition as 85-01-25b).
Please cite as “FVM-85-02-00a,” 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/85-02-00a