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. 93.09.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society, 1893-09 [93.09.00b]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-09-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Date is uncertain, estimated as the last likely date for a certificate to be received in London in time to be proposed on 13 November; other certificates from M also proposed on that date were written on 3 July 1893 and 23 August 1893.

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Name	Sidney Dickinson, Esqr
Description	Professor and Lecturer on Art History, etc
Residence	No. 3412 No. 17th. St., Philadelphia, Pa., 2 No. 3412 ... Pa., above Boston Massachusetts deleted. U.S.A. (temporarily in Paris) An extensive traveller, also in 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 189

Ferd von Mueller	F.R.G.S	{ From personal Knowledge
J. W. Lindt	F.R.G.S.
Wm. Potter	F.R.G.S.

Proposed	13th Nov	1893
Elected	27th —	1893

Removed 1907