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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society   3 July 1893

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name Gordon Frazer1 Esq
Description Landscape Painter, traveller through wide tracts of
Residence

Australia, also in New Zealand, Polynesia and New Guinea2

John Street Hampstead Road N.W

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 Third day of July 1893

Ferd von Mueller F.R.G.S { From personal Knowledge
A.C. Macdonald F.R.G.S.
Wm. Potter F.R.G.S.
Proposed 13th Nov 1893
Elected 27th 1893

Died June 19003

1

In the RGS yearbook for 1900 he is listed as C. Gordon Frazer.

2

See M to O. Tepper, 30 June 1893.

3

Annotation in another hand. Most sources give his year of death as 1899, while on a commission to paint the portraits of the royal family of Siam.

Please cite as “FVM-93-07-03a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-07-03a