CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION
| Name | Frank Scarr1 Esqr. JP |
| Description | Stock and station agent a member of the Council of the Royal geographical Society of Australasia and one of the founders of the Victorian Branch, in former years an exploring traveller in central Australia2 |
| Residence | 95 Collins Street West Melbourne |
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 17th day of August 1887
| A C. Macdonald | F.R.G.S. | { From personal Knowledge |
| Ferd.von Mueller | F.R.G.S. | " " |
| Wm Potter | F.R.G.S. | " " |
| Proposed | 14th Nov | 1887 |
| Elected | 28th Nov | 18873 |
The published note of his election in 'Report of the Evening Meetings, Session 1887-8', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1888), pp. 41-4, at p. 44, uses the spelling 'Scurr', the name under which the certificate was originally filed in the RGS Archives. See Favenc (1888), chapter XIII, passim, for details of Scarr's work as 'an exploring traveller in central Australia'.
in former ... Australia added by M to Macdonald's text.
Annotated: Removed Dec 1888.
Please cite as “FVM-87-08-17a,” 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