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 Place3
No number has been entered.
(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. M was not awarded his British knighthood until 1879.
15 Whitehall Place was the address of the RGS from 1854 to 1870. MS annotation: Died 8.10.1896 (sic).
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