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93.12.00g

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Horticultural Society, 1893-12 [93.12.00g]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-12-00g-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Bairnsdale advertiser and Tambo and Omeo chronicle, 23 March 1894, p. [2], col. d. It is dated to December 1893 as the latest likely date it could have been sent if notification of election was to be received by March. But see note 2 below.
[ Mr D. Clark, B.C.E., the director of the Bairnsdale School of Mines, has been admitted as a fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of England. Baron von Mueller, we understand, was his nominator .
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No election of a D. Clark as FRHS (England) or as an associate has been found in the lists of persons elected during the years 1893 or 1894 in the reports in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. Proposal forms for the period cannot be found.
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