To the Royal Geographical Society   19 January 1891

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Alexander Charles Allan, C.E.

Description

Surveyor in Practice, formerly of the Geodetic Survey

Residence

Chancery Lane, 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 day of   189 1

(signed)

Ferd von Mueller

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

"

A.C. MacDonald

F.R.G.S.

"

Frank Scarr2

F.R.G.S.
 

Proposed

19th Jany 1891

Elected

9th Feby 1891
 
1
Certificate completed in an unidentified hand, presumably from information in a letter not now retained in the archives. The only dates given are those of proposal and election to the Society.
2
Signatures of supporters are not autograph signatures, but in the same hand that completed the certificate.

Please cite as “FVM-91-01-19,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-01-19