Dr Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist, Melbourne, Victoria, a gentleman highly distinguished as a Traveller & Botanist, late Botanist to the Australian Exploring Expedition under Mr Gregory, & the author of numerous valuable papers on Australian Botany, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Linnean Society, we the undersigned do, of our knowledge of him or of his writing,1 recommend him as being eminently deserving of that honor.
W J Hooker
Jos. D Hooker
W H Harvey
John J Bennett
Thomas Bell Prest2
George Bentham
Robt Heward
John Hogg
Charles Darwin3
Please cite as “FVM-M58-11-04,” 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