To the Linnean Society of London1    March 1894

 

Adelaide, South Australia,

March [...]2 1894

To the Secretary3

of the Linnean Society of London

 

We the undersigned Fellows of the Society, beg to propose

Mr. Amadeus Zietz, Assistant Director of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide4 as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and certify from personal knowledge of his attainments and professional work that we consider him well qualified for the honour.

J. G. O. Tepper

Museum Entomologist

Albert Molineux

Secry. Agric. Bureau S.A.

Ferd. von Mueller

Verte5

 

P. S. Mr. A. Zietz has acted for many years as Preparateur, etc. at the Godefrey Museum at Hamburg, and the Imperial Museum at Kiel, and gained the gold metals6 for his department at the Vienna Exhibition and the Fishery Exhibition at Berlin prior to 1883 when he arrived at Adelaide to take charge of his appointment at the local Museum and became a British subject by naturalization. He is a zoologist and anthropologist of high standing, though little has been published under his name, most of his later labours being merged in those published by another officer of the institution.7

1
Autograph text by O. Tepper; Molineaux and M autograph signatures.
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There is a space left in the text.
3
M deleted President and inserted Secretary.
4
Mr. Amadeus … Adelaide underlined in red pencil.
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Added by M. Tepper wrote the text on the back of the sheet.
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medals?
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Annotated front: Read 19 April 1894 Ballot 7 June 1894; back: Amadeus Zietz Elected 7th June 1894.

The file includes the obligation form signed and dated 23 July 1894 in which Zietz undertook to pay his fees while a member.

Please cite as “FVM-94-03-00,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-03-00