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Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, foreign members and associates, 1883-86. 84.10.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1884-10. 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/1880-9/1884/84-10-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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M's autograph MS and signature; other supporters' individual signatures.
FORM OF RECOMMENDATION
FOR A FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON
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The heading has been cut from a formal recommendation form and glued to the top of the letter.
We the undersigned beg to recommend
Stuart Carey
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Stuart Carey is underlined in pencil.
Esqr, Gov. Surveyor, Perth, West Australia,
for the honor of the Fellowship of the Linnean Society, he being well worthy of this distinction by his zealous observations on the vegetation of Western Australia during his surveys on the Great Bight and also latterly near Sharks Bay
Note Mr Stuart Carey is a native of West Austr., where his father is a member of the Legislature
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Mr Stuart … Legislature is written on a separate slip of paper pinned to the letter. M's assertion that Carey was born in WA is an error; he arrived there from Ireland as a child.
Ferd von Mueller, Ph. & M.D., FLS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.
Robt D Fitzgerald, F.L.S.
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Annotated bottom left margin: Read at General Meeting 4 Dec 1884 Ballot will take place 15 January 1885.
top front, in pencil, apparently in later hand: Ob wanting.
Back: Stuart Carey Esq elected 15 Jan 1885.
To have been read in early December, the letter must have been sent by October; it has been numbered accordingly.