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: |
| Residence1 | 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. |
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| Henry G Turner |
F.R.G.S. |
| Proposed |
10th Nov. |
1891 |
| Elected |
23rd " |
18914 |
Died April 19485
Printed Residence deleted.
The address at which his mother was living at the 1891 England Census (National Archives, London, RG 12/104/69, p. 20).
Candidate’s details, nomination date and M’s signature in M’s hand.
The file includes a letter from Wachtmeister to the Royal Geographical Society, 17 March 1892, from Srinagar, India, stating 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.
April 1948 in unknown hand. Actual date of death: 12 December 1947 (T. 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