From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society   [Nov 1889]

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name Rev John1 Brown Gribble
Description Clergyman of the Church of England
Residence

St. Pauls vicarage, Temora, N.S. Wales,

Australia

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 day of 182

Ferd von Mueller, M.D. Ph. D.

F.R.G.S.

{ From personal knowledge
Wm. Potter

F.R.G.S.

T. F. Bride

F.R.G.S

Proposed

20th Jany

1890
Elected

10th Feby

18903

John written in pencil on the paper on to which the torn original has been glued.

Date omitted; date of item estimated from date of proposal: see certificate for F. J. Byerley,16 November 1889, proposed and elected on same date as Gribble.

Annotated: Died 3.6.1893.

For further information about the circumstances of this candidature, see J. Gribble to M, 2 April 1890, and M to H. Bates, 6 April 1890.

Please cite as “FVM-89-11-00,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-11-00