3/12/88
We the Undersigned beg to propose
Alexander Morton2 Esqr
the Curator of the Governm. Museum, Hobart, Tasmania for the fellowship of the Linnean Society, of which honor he is well worthy through his strenuous promotion of Natural History in his island.
Ferd. von Mueller, M. D., F.LS.
William Woolls Ph. D., F. L. S.
RobtD Fitzgerald, F.L.S.3
M autograph text and signature; additional supporters’ individual signatures.
Alexander Morton underlined in blue pencil.
Annotated front bottom: Read 17 January 1889 Ballot will take place 21 Feby 1889.
Unusually, there is no annotation on the back of the sheet indicating the result of the election. Morton was elected on 21 February 1889 (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, session 1888-89, p. 5).
Please cite as “FVM-88-12-03,” 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