From the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Ferdinand von Mueller 9 Nov 1892
Regia
Scientiarum Academia
Suecica
Virum
ingenio et doctrina inclytum
liberum baronem nobilissimum
dominum
FERDINANDUM DE MUELLER
socium extraneum
solenni suffragio electum
in communitatem studiorum
litteris his patentibus
qva par est observantia
invitat.
Cl. Adelsköld
P. t. Praeses.
D. G.Lindhagen
Secr. Perpet.
Holmiae die IX Novembris MDCCCXCII.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences invites a man renowned for talent and erudition, the free Baron and most noble Lord Ferdinand von Mueller, into [its] community of studies, elected as a foreign member by a solemn vote [made known] by these letters patent, through which its recognition is attested.
Cl. Adelsköld, President at the time.
D. G.Lindhagen Permanent Secretary.
Stockholm 9 November 1892.
MS is a printed certificate on which the signatures have been added by hand. At the top of the certificate there is an image of a gardener planting a tree over the motto 'FÖR EFTERKOMMANDE' [For posterity]. M to V. Wittrock, 8 January 1893 expressed admiration for the certificate.
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Please cite as “FVM-92-11-09,” 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