From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society   [Sep 1893]

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name Sidney Dickinson, Esqr
Description Professor and Lecturer on Art History, etc
Residence

No. 3412 No. 17th. St., Philadelphia, Pa.,1 U.S.A.

(temporarily in Paris)

An extensive traveller, also in 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 day of 189

Ferd von Mueller F.R.G.S { From personal Knowledge
J. W. Lindt F.R.G.S.
Wm. Potter F.R.G.S.
Proposed

13th Nov

1893
Elected

27th —

1893

Removed 1907

No. 3412 ... Pa., above Boston Massachusetts deleted.

Date is uncertain, estimated as the last likely date for a certificate to be received in London in time to be proposed on 13 November; other certificates from M also proposed on that date were written on 3 July 1893 and 23 August 1893.

Please cite as “FVM-93-09-00b,” 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/93-09-00b