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Physical location:

RB MSS M200a.32, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 64.05.14b

Preferred Citation:

the Society of the Friends of Nature, Moscow to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1864-05-14 [64.05.14b]. 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//letters/1860-9/1864/64-05-14b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
MS is a certificate bearing the seal of the Society.
ОБЩЕСТВО ЛЮБИТЕЛЕЙ ЕСТЕСТВОЗНАНІЯ,
СОСТОЯЩЕЕ ПРИ
ИМПЕРАТОРСКОМЪ МОСКОВСКОМЪ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ Ѣ
ВЪ ЗАСЕДАНІИ 14го Мая 186 4
ИЗБРАЛО
Дра ФЕРДИНАНДА МЮЛЛЕРЪ
СВОИМЪ
ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМЪ ЧЛЕНОМЪ.
ЧЛЕНЫ СОВЕТА:
А. Вогданов
[… Ковалскій]
ПРЕЗИДЕНТЪ Гр. Щуровскій
ВИЦЕ-ПРЕЗИДЕНТЪ А. Давидовъ
СЕКРЕТАРЪ Н. Венгеръ
SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF NATURE,
AFFILIATED TO
THE IMPERIAL MOSCOW UNIVERSITY
In the Session of the 14th of May 1864
2
Date is Old Style (that is, according to the Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time); it has not been converted to the Gregorian calendar equivalent.
Elected
Dr Ferdinand Mueller
As its own full member.
3
See also Society of the Friends of Nature, Moscow, to M, 26 October 1864 (in this edition as 64-10-26a).
Members of the Council:
A. Bogdanov
4
Often transliterated in 19th-century documents, including one that appears in this edition, as Bogdanoff.
[… Kovalskii].
President Gr. Shchurovskii
Vice-President A. Davidov
Secretary N. Venger