The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 3/12/88 ¶ We the Undersigned beg to propose ¶ ¶ Alexander Morton ¶ Esqr ¶ the Curator of the Governm. Museum, Hobart, Tasmania for the fellowship of the Linnean Society, of which honor he is well wo...

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Linnean Society, London, Certificate of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates. 1887-90. 88.12.03

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1888-12-03. 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/1880-9/1888/88-12-03-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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3/12/88

We the Undersigned beg to propose

Alexander Morton

Alexander Morton underlined in blue pencil.

Esqr

the Curator of the Governm. Museum, Hobart, Tasmania for the fellowship of the Linnean Society, of which honor he is well worthy through his strenuous promotion of Natural History in his island.

Ferd. von Mueller, M. D., F.LS.

William Woolls Ph. D., F. L. S.

RobtD Fitzgerald, F.L.S.

Annotated front bottom: Read 17 January 1889 Ballot will take place 21 Feby 1889.

Unusually, there is no annotation on the back of the sheet indicating the result of the election. Morton was elected on 21 February 1889 (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, session 1888-89, p. 5).