The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences invites ¶ ¶ a man renowned for talent and erudition, the free Baron and most noble Lord Ferdinand von Mueller, into [its] community of studies, elected as a f...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M200b.38, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.11.09

Preferred Citation:

the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-11-09. 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/92-11-09>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS is a printed certificate on which the signatures have been added by hand. At the top of the certificate there is an image of a gardener planting a tree over the motto 'FÖR EFTERKOMMANDE' [For posterity]. M to V. Wittrock, 8 January 1893 expressed admiration for the certificate.

Regia

Scientiarum Academia

Suecica

Virum

ingenio et doctrina inclytum

liberum baronem nobilissimum

dominum

FERDINANDUM DE MUELLER

socium extraneum

solenni suffragio electum

in communitatem studiorum

litteris his patentibus

qva par est observantia

invitat.

Cl. Adelsköld

P. t. Praeses.

D. G.Lindhagen

Secr. Perpet.

Holmiae die IX Novembris MDCCCXCII.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences invites a man renowned for talent and erudition, the free Baron and most noble Lord Ferdinand von Mueller, into [its] community of studies, elected as a foreign member by a solemn vote [made known] by these letters patent, through which its recognition is attested.

Cl. Adelsköld, President at the time.

D. G.Lindhagen Permanent Secretary.

Stockholm 9 November 1892.