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. 95.10.24b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society, 1895-10-24 [95.10.24b]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-10-24b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION

Except for the other sponsors’ signatures, the main body of the certificate has been completed in M's hand.

Name	Rev. John Bufton FLS, F.R.H.S
Description	Clergyman of the Church of England
Residence	Dunally, Tasmania, an Explorer in the southern Alps there.

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 24th day of Oct 1895

Ferd von Mueller	F.R.G.S	{ From personal Knowledge
T. F. Bride	F.R.G.S.
Wm. Potter 2 Wm. Potter has been deleted, and the annotation S.O. '94 added. [That is, Potter was ineligible to sponsor Bufton, having been struck off the Fellowship in 1894.]	F.R.G.S

Proposed	9th Dec 1895
Elected	6th Jany 1896

Resigned 2.2.1903