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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Horticultural Society, 1891 [91.00.00a]. 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/1890-6/1891/91-00-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

1
Letter not found. The text given here is from Adelaide observer, 16 May 1891, p. 29.
[On the recommendation of Baron Sir F. Von Mueller the honour of Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of England has been conferred upon Professor Brown,
2
William Brown (1835-1903).
of the Dookie Agricultural College, Victoria.]
3
The 19th century nomination forms of Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society have not been preserved, so it is not known who M nominated as Fellows, or how many. However, in the unsigned obituary of M published in the Gardeners' chronicle, 17 October 1896, pp. 464-6, it is stated that
One illustration of his zeal for horticulture is shown in the great numbers of Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society who were proposed by him. The Society, indeed, owes no little to the unselfish action of Baron Von Mueller, who, when the Society threw off South Kensington shackles, and started on its career of pure horticulture, expressed his sympathy in the way just mentioned. Indeed, in the last letter received from him shortly before the telegraph brought news of his death, there was a proposal-form for the election of yet another Australian Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society (p. 466).