To the Linnean Society of London1    February 1892

 

We the Undersigned, beg to propose

Henry Arthur2 James Esqr., F.R.H.S. Adr. Department for Mines, Sydney3 for which honor he is well recommendable, through having devoted for many years attention to the study of cultural plants in N.S.W., as testified by his meritorious “Australian Handbook of Horticulture”.4

Ferd. von Mueller, M.D., FLS.

William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.

W.H. Catlett F.L.S, F.Z.S.5

M autograph text and signature; additional supporters’ individual signatures. To have been read in April 1892, the letter must have been mailed about February 1892; it has been numbered accordingly.
Mueller had written H. A. James; the names were completed by interlining, apparently by Woolls. ‘Arthur’ may be an error for ‘Alfred’: see Aitken & Looker (2002).
Adr. … Sydney is a marginal note with intended position indicated by an asterisk.
James (1891).

Annotated front of sheet: Read 21 April 1892. Ballot 2 June 1892; back: Henry Arthur James elected 2nd June 1892.

The file includes the (undated) obligation form signed by James, undertaking to pay the fees while he remained a member.

Please cite as “FVM-92-02-00a,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-02-00a