To the Royal Geographical Society   17 August 1887

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.

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Wm Potter

F.R.G.S.

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Proposed

14th Nov

1887

Elected

28th Nov

18873
 
1
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’.
2
in former ... Australia added by M to Macdonald’s text.
3
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 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-08-17a