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Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1883-6. 83.10.15a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1883-10-15 [83.10.15a]. 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/1880-9/1883/83-10-15a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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M autograph text and signature; additional supporters' individual signatures.
15/10/83
We the undersigned beg to recommend
D. Sullivan
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D Sullivan is underlined in crayon.
Esqr, Head
Teacher of the State School,
Moyston, Victoria,
for election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he being well worthy of this honor through his zealous devotion to the cause of Botany.
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, bottom: Proposed 17 Jany 1884 Ballot 21 February 1884 BDJ [B. D. Jackson]; front top, in pencil, added at a later date: Ob wanting; back: D Sullivan Esq elected 21 Feby 1884 BDJ.
Sullivan’s death was announced at the Linnean Society’s adjourned Anniversary Meeting, 4 June 1896 (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1895-6 session, p. 14), and a short unsigned obituary was published in the same volume, p. 47.