CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION
| Name | William Herbert Jones |
| Description | Traveller, and lecturer on Geography [&c] |
| Residence | Melbourne – Australia |
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 19th day of September 1891 at Melbourne1
| Ferd. von Mueller | F.R.G.S | { From personal Knowledge | |
| Wm.[A] Potter | F.R.G.S. | ||
| A.C. Macdonald | F.R.G.S. |
Proposed Elected |
10th Nov 23rd — |
1891 18912 |
The body of the certificate, including the date, is completed in an unknown hand; autograph signatures of supporters.
MS annotation in ink: 'TRNS GARRISON W. H.'
A file card headed 'Duplicate' , with spaces for 'Name', in which is entered ‘Garrison, Wm. Herbert', and 'Proposed as' with the entry 'Jones, W. H. | 1899' is filed under 'Garrison'; there is an annotation 'Died 1935' in the same hand as completed the details. 1899 presumably refers to the date of the name-change. There is a pencil annotation in another hand '[See ref only]'.
Please cite as “FVM-91-09-19,” 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