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. 93.07.03a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society, 1893-07-03 [93.07.03a]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-07-03a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name	Gordon Frazer 1 In the RGS yearbook for 1900 he is listed as C. Gordon Frazer. Esq
Description	Landscape Painter, traveller through wide tracts of
Residence	Australia, also in New Zealand, Polynesia and New Guinea 2 See M to O. Tepper, 30 June 1893. John Street Hampstead Road N.W

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

Dated this Third day of July 1893

Ferd von Mueller	F.R.G.S	{ From personal Knowledge
A.C. Macdonald	F.R.G.S.
Wm. Potter	F.R.G.S.

Proposed	13th Nov	1893
Elected	27th	1893

Died June 1900

Annotation in another hand. Most sources give his year of death as 1899, while on a commission to paint the portraits of the royal family of Siam.