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Royal Society of London, Archives, List of Candidates, 1885. 85.00.00d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Society of London, 1885 [85.00.00d]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/85-00-00d>, accessed June 20, 2025

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The lapsed certificate for Ulrich could not be produced at the Royal Society Archives in November 2019, so the details are taken from the printed List of Candidates prepared annually after 1847 for the information of Council and Fellows (1885 list). See also Home (2002), p. 312. The layout is modelled on the form of the certificates used in the period.
The certificate is dated to early 1885 as the latest possible date it could have been sent to London to be up for election in 1885.
(Name)
George Henry Frederic Ulrich
(Title or Designation)
Prof
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Description used is not in source.
(Profession or Trade)
Professor of Mineralogy and Mining
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Description used is not in source.
(Usual Place of Residence)
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Qualifications
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On the form, 'Qualifications' is printed vertically to the left of the space left for the details. Ulrich's candidature information was included unchanged in the List of Candidates for 1889 (annotated in pencil as a candidate for a third time) with von Haast shown as having died and E. Hull having being moved to the general knowledge list. The 1892 list (annotated in pencil as a candidate for the fourth time), also with an unchanged citation, showed the additional support of Warington W Smyth from personal knowledge, although both he and Bristow had died before the list was printed. Home (2003), p. 80 indicates that Ulrich continued to be nominated until 1900, but the set of lists produced in November 2019 was incomplete or damaged, and these other nominations could not be checked for changes in the citation or additional supporters. Ulrich was not elected.
F.G.S. Professor of Mineralogy and Mining in the University of Otago. Director of the School of Mines, Dunedin, N.Z. Geologist, Mineralogist, and Mining Engineer. Author of a large number of memoirs on Geology, Mining and Mineralogy of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Hungary. Of the memoirs cited in Etheridge and Jack's Catalogue of Geological Works on the Australian Continent, 1881, the following are the most important:- With A. R. C. Selwyn, "Notes on the Physical Geography, Geology, and Mineralogy of Victoria" (International Exhibition Essay, 1866); "Contributions to the Mineralogy of Victoria," 1871; in which amongst others he describes three new minerals, Selwynite, Talcosite , and Maldonite .
As Curator of the Mineralogical Collection of the Technological Museum, Melbourne, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Rock Specimens in that Museum; "Report on the Mining Resources of South Australia," Adelaide, 1872; "The Treatment of Auriferous Lead and Silver Ores at Chemnitz, Upper Hungary" (result of a special visit to Europe in 1866.)
Amongst his publications in New Zealand his "Report on the Goldfields of Otago'' is published with Prof. Hutton's "Geology of Otago," and is a valuable contribution both from a theoretical and practical point of view. "Observations on 'Nuggetty Reef' Victoria" (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1869); "Observations on some Tin Discoveries in New England, New South Wales" (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1873), &c.
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The items cited are Etheridge & Jack (1881), Selwyn & Ulrich (1867), Ulrich (1870), Ulrich (1875), Ulrich (1872), Ulrich (1868), Hutton & Ulrich (1875), Ulrich (1869) and Ulrich (1873). For a full list of Ulrich's publications, see Birch & Darragh (2015), Appendix 1.
From General knowledge
From personal knowledge
George Verdon.
Julius von Haast.
A. Geikie.
J. Hector.
H. W. Bristow.
Walter L. Buller.
J. W. Judd.
Ferd. von Mueller.
R. Etheridge.
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Robert Etheridge Sr.
R. L. J. Ellery.
F. McCoy.
E. Hull.