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Linnean Society,London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign members and associates, 1891-7. 94.10.00Preferred Citation:
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.
James Wilshire Esqr., J.P., F.R.H.S. President of the Pomologic
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.
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added in pencil in an unknown hand.
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Ferd. von Mueller, F.LS.,
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from personal knowledge.
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Albert Molineux, F.L.S.
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from personal knowledge
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Chas French F.L.S.
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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.
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