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Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1883-6. 83.09.20

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1883-09-20. 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/1880-9/1883/83-09-20-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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M autograph manuscript and signature; other supporters' individual signatures. The file includes an undated obligation form signed by Thom, undertaking to pay the fees while he remained a Fellow.
20/9/83
We the Undersigned beg to recommend the Reverend R. Thom,
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Reverend R. Thom underlined in crayon.
M.A., Principal of the Presbyterian Grammar-School of Sandhurst
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Now Bendigo, Vic.
in the Colony of Victoria for the Fellowship of the Linnean Society of London, to which honor he is well entitled by his assiduous application to botanical science in recreative hours.
Ferd. von Mueller M.D., FLS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.
Robt D Fitzgerald, F.L.S.
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Annotated front: Proposed Nov 15 1883 Ballot 20 December 1883; back: Rev R Thom elected 20 Dec 1883.