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RB MSS M200b.47, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 66.02.17

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the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-02-17. 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/66-02-17>, accessed September 11, 2025

Auspiciis augustissimi potentissimi atque clementissimi principis
ALEXANDRI SECUNDI,
omnium russiarum
Imperatoris et Autocratoris,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
Societas Caesarea Naturae Curiosorum Mosquensis, conventu die XVII Februarii MDCCCLXVI anni membris suis adscripsit ordinariis virum excellentissimum, doctissimum
Doctorem Ferdinandum Müller
1
M's name has been set in type and printed on the certificate.
Praeses Demetrius Lewschin
Vice-Praeses Alexander Fischer de Waldheim
Secretarii Dr. Renard
Dr J Auerbach
Under the auspices of the most august, most powerful and most merciful prince, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Auotcrat of all the Russias etc. etc. etc., the Imperial Naturalists’ Society of Moscow, assembled on 17 February 1866,
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.
enrolled among its ordinary members the most excellent and most learned Doctor Ferdinand Müller.
President Demetrius Lewschin
Vice-President Alexander Fischer von Waldheim
Secretaries Dr. Renard
Dr J. Auerbach
3
M was elected on the presentation of the two secretaries Charles Renard and Jean Auerbach at the meeting 17 February 1866. See Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 39 (1866), pt 1, p. 25.
See also C. Renard to M, 2 March 1866, and M to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1866 (in this edition as 66-00-00a).