To the Royal Geographical Society   7 July 1891

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Henry Heylyn Hayter Esqr. C.M.G.

Description

Officer of the French Order for public Instruction, Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Gov. Statist of the Colony of Victoria

Residence

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 7 day of July 1891

 

Ferd. von Mueller

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

A. C. Macdonald

F.R.G.S.

J. A. Panton

F.R.G.S.
 

Proposed

10th Nov.

1891

Elected

23rd —

18911
 
1
Annotated: Never Qualified [i.e. did not pay the subscription]. Hayter became insolvent in the land crash in Melbourne of late 1891 (ADB)]

Please cite as “FVM-91-07-07a,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-07-07a