To the Royal Geographical Society   8 June 1891

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Count Axel Wachtmeister,

Description

only son of a former Ambassador of Sweden at the Court of St James, lately a traveller in almost unknown regions of New Zealand, now on a tour round the world:

Residence 1

Adresse: 19 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, London N.W2
 

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 8th day of [June] 1891

 

Baron von Mueller, M.D3

F.R.G.S

{ From personal knowledge

A.C. Macdonald

F.R.G.S.

Henry G Turner

F.R.G.S.
 

Proposed

10th Nov.

1891

Elected

23rd "

18914
 

Died April 19485

1
PrintedResidence deleted.
2
The address at which his mother was living at the 1891 England Census (National Archives, London, RG 12/104/69, p. 20).
3
Candidate’s details, nomination date and M’s signature in M’s hand.
4
Wachtmeister to the Royal Geographical Society, 17 March 1892, from Srinagar, India, states that he had just received the notice that he owed fees, and had been unaware that he had been elected. His Swedish bank paid a life composition fee of £28 on his behalf in April 1892.
5
April 1948 in unknown hand. Actual date of death: 12 December 1947 (Baker [1958], p. 1728).

Please cite as “FVM-91-06-08,” 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/91-06-08