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Linnean Society,London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign members and associates, 1891-7. 94.10.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1894-10. 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/1890-6/1894/94-10-00-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

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M autograph manuscript and signature; other supporters’ individual signatures. To have been read in December, the letter must have left Australia by October; the letter has been numbered accordingly.
We the Undersigned beg to propose
James Wilshire Esqr., J.P., F.R.H.S. President of the Pomologic
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al added in pencil in an unknown hand.
and Horticultural Society of New South Wales, residing in Sydney, for the Fellowship of the Linnéan Society of London, to which honor this Gentleman has fair claims through the great support given by him to the study of Australian plants from an horticultural point of view.
Ferd. von Mueller, F.LS.,
from personal knowledge.
Albert Molineux, F.L.S.
from personal knowledge
Chas French F.L.S.
from personal knowledge.
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Charles French, Snr.
Annotated front: Read 6 Decr 1894 Ballot 17 January 1895; back centre top: James T. Wilshire elected, 17th January, 1895; back, right of sheet: J T Wilshire.
The file includes the obligation form signed and dated 17 May 1895 by Wilshire, undertaking to pay the fees while he remained a Fellow.