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 1891
| (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 |
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.
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