To the Royal Geographical Society   22 December 1886

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Ralph Waldo Emerson MacIvor M.A., F.I.C., F.C.S., mem Phys. Soc. Lond.

Description

Professor of Chemistry & Agriculture

Residence

67, Great Clyde St. Glasgow formerly Technical College, Sydney, N.S.W.
 

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 22nd day of December 1886

 

(Signed) Ferd von Mueller1

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

S. Wm Silver

F.R.G.S.

F.R.G.S.
 

Proposed

Jany 17th

1887

Elected

[Jany 31st]2

18873
 
1
M's name is in the hand that completed the certificate.
2

No election date is entered on the face of the certificate, but it is endorsed on the back of the certificate.

There is another certificate for MacIvor; see Royal Geographical Society Certificate, 1 October 1880 (in this edition as 80-10-01a).

3
Annotated: Removed 1896.

Please cite as “FVM-86-12-22,” 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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-12-22