To the Royal Geographical Society   24 October 1895

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION 1

 

Name

Rev. John Bufton FLS, F.R.H.S

Description

Clergyman of the Church of England

Residence

Dunally, Tasmania, an Explorer in the southern Alps there.
 

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 24th day of Oct 1895

 

Ferd von Mueller

F.R.G.S

{ From personal Knowledge

T. F. Bride

F.R.G.S.

Wm. Potter2

F.R.G.S

 
 

Proposed

9th Dec 1895

Elected

6th Jany 1896
 

Resigned  2.2.19033

1
Except for the other sponsors’ signatures, the main body of the certificate has been completed in M's hand.
2
Wm. Potter has been deleted, and the annotationS.O. '94 added.[That is, Potter was ineligible to sponsor Bufton, having been struck off the Fellowship in 1894.]
3
MS annotation:

Please cite as “FVM-95-10-24b,” 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 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-10-24b