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Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign members and Associates 1865-70. 68.03.12

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Kippist, 1868-03-12. 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/1860-9/1868/68-03-12-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot
Garden 12/3/68.
It affords me much pleasure to introduce, dear Mr. Kippist, an other worthy candidate for the fellowship of the L.S.,
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Linnean Society, London.
namely the author of this very excellent and practical memoir on the Bombyx Cynthia.
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Brady (1868). The Linnean Society has a copy of the pamphlet in Opuscula Zoologica 9, and in the same volume a copy of 'Silk. (By Charles Brady F.L.S.)', a 25-page item without its publication details recorded, but annotated ‘From Dr G Bennet’.
Mr. Charl Brady is a merchant in Sydney.
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No certificate of election for Brady can be found. A card index of Fellows and Nominees at the Linnean Society includes a card for Brady, Charles: ‘elected [sic; almost certainly an error for ‘proposed’] 12/3/1868. Never appeared in lists presumed did not qualify.’ The only evidence at the Linnean Society that supports the view that he was elected FLS is the use of the postnominals in the undated article on 'Silk' (see above), which R. Walker (1878) lists as ‘Silk. By Chas. Brady, F.L.S. Sydney, 1871. 8vo. Pamph. pp. 25’.
With regardful salutations
Your Ferd. von Mueller