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Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members, and Associates M58.11.04

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William Hooker and others to the Linnean Society of London, 1858-11-04 [M58.11.04]. 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/mentions/selected/M58-11-04-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Dr Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist, Melbourne, Victoria, a gentleman highly distinguished as a Traveller & Botanist, late Botanist to the Australian Exploring Expedition under Mr Gregory, & the author of numerous valuable papers on Australian Botany, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Linnean Society, we the undersigned do, of our knowledge of him or of his writing,
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of our ... writing interlined.
recommend him as being eminently deserving of that honor.
W J Hooker
Jos. D Hooker
W H Harvey
John J Bennett
Thomas Bell Prest
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President.
George Bentham
Robt Heward
John Hogg
Charles Darwin
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Annotated: Proposed Nov 4th 1858 | Ballot Jany 20th 1859. Elected. J.J. Bt. [i.e. J. J. Bennett, Secretary].
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