To the Royal Geographical Society   11 January 1858

No. ............... 1 .

 

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

 

Name

Dr F Mueller2

Title

Botanist & Explorer of Tropical Australia

Address

Melbourne
 

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 11th day of Januar[y] 1858

 

P E de Strzelecki

{

From personal Knowledge

T Baines

Rod Murchison

Francis Galton

 

Proposed

11th January

1858

Elected

25th January

1858
 

15, Whitehall Place 3

1
No number has been entered.
2
‘(Sir) Ferdinand’ added in another hand before ‘Mueller’ above [illegible] deleted.The main body of the certificate is completed in Strzelecki’s hand, with autograph signatures of the other nominators.
3
MS annotation: 'Died 8.10.1896'.

Please cite as “FVM-M58-01-11,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/M58-01-11