The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION ¶ Being desirous of admission into the ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, We, the undersigned, recommend him as likely to become a useful and valuable Fellow. ¶ Dated th...

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Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Certificates of Candidates for Election. 89.11.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society, 1889-11. 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/1880-9/1889/89-11-00-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name	Rev John 1 John written in pencil on the paper on to which the torn original has been glued. Brown Gribble
Description	Clergyman of the Church of England
Residence	St. Pauls vicarage, Temora, N.S. Wales, Australia

Being desirous of admission into the ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, We, the undersigned, recommend him as likely to become a useful and valuable Fellow.

Dated thisday of 18

Date omitted; date of item estimated from date of proposal: see certificate for F. J. Byerley,16 November 1889, proposed and elected on same date as Gribble.

Ferd von Mueller, M.D. Ph. D.	F.R.G.S.	{ From personal knowledge
Wm. Potter	F.R.G.S.
T. F. Bride	F.R.G.S

Proposed	20th Jany	1890
Elected	10th Feby	1890 3 Annotated: Died 3.6.1893. For further information about the circumstances of this candidature, see J. Gribble to M, 2 April 1890, and M to H. Bates, 6 April 1890.