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Linnean Society of London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1883-6. 85.01.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1885-01 [85.01.00b]. 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/1880-9/1885/85-01-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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M autograph manuscript and signature; other supporters’ individual signatures. It is not known when the recommendation was written and signed by Mueller, or when the additional supporters signed it. To have been read in March, it must have sent to London by January 1885. It has been numbered accordingly. The letter is pasted onto the top of a formal recommendation form.
FORM OF RECOMMENDATION
FOR A FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON
We the Undersigned beg to recommend
George Luehmann
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George Luehmann underlined in brown crayon.
Esqr of Melbourne for the honor of the Fellowship of the Linnean Society, to which he is well entitled by his zeal in botanic Science.
Ferd Von Mueller, M.D., FLS.
William Woolls Ph.D., F.L.S.
RobtD Fitzgerald, F.L.S.
Note.
Mr Lühmann is since a series of years engaged in my Department, and thus aids also in work of the bot Museum.
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The postscript paragraphs are on a slip of paper pasted onto the bottom of the sheet; the annotations detailing the election history are written partly in this addition to the main sheet.
Annotated front: This Certificate was Read at a General Meeting of the Society 19th March 1885 The Ballot will take place on 16th April 1885 BJD [B. D. Jackson].
back: J G Luehmann elected 16 Apl 1885.