| RefNo | EC/1851/07 |
| Previous numbers | Cert IX, 273; A02427 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Fitzroy, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | The Author of a Narrative of a Ten Years' Voyage of Discovery round the World, written in connexion with Capt P P King. The inventor of a Surveying Quadrant. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Hydrography & Nautical Astronomy. Eminent as a Scientific Navigator, & for his chronometric measurements of a chain of meridian distances during the circumnavigation of the globe which he conducted. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. Edward Forbes; Richard Owen; C Wheatstone
From Personal Knowledge. F Beaufort; W H Smyth; J A Lloyd; Ph J Yorke; John Richardson; J N Colquhoun; Js Walker; John Edw Gray; Robert Harry Inglis; Charles Darwin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6774 | FitzRoy; Robert (1805 - 1865); hydrographer and meteorologist | 1805 - 1865 |