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Authorised form of name	Brandis; Sir; Dietrich (1824 - 1907)
Dates	1824 - 1907
Place of birth	Bonn, Germany
Date of birth	31 March 1824
Place of death	Bonn, Germany
Date of death	29/05/1907
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Bonn, Germany
Research field	Botany
Activity	Education: Bonn; Athens; Copenhagen. PhD (1848, Bonn) Career: In charge of teak forests of Burma and saved them from destruction (1856-1862); Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India (1864); retired (1883) Honours: CIE 1878; KCIE 1887 Memberships: FLS
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	03/06/1875
Relationships	Eldest son of Christian August Brandis, Professor of Philosophy, and his wife Caroline Hausmann. Married: 1) (1854) Rachel daughter of Rev Joshua Marshman (she died 1863); 2) (1867) Katharine, daughter of Dr Rudolph Hasse of Bonn
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1908 vol 80 pp iii-vi signed by W S References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/62339907
Code	NA5501

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1875/18	Brandis, Sir Dietrich: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/35/478	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	4 June 1907
NLB/10/1051	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	30 March 1895
NLB/10/216	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	23 October 1894
NLB/10/1028	Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society, 12 Pen-y-wern Road, Earl's Court, S.W.	27 March 1895
NLB/20/31	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	18 January 1900
NLB/16/873	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	23 June 1898
NLB/18/200	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	6 February 1899
NLB/20/223	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	28 February 1900
NLB/16/353	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	22 March 1898
NLB/17/142	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 July 1898
NLB/19/124	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	26 June 1899
NLB/20/763	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	3 July 1900
NLB/18/659	Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	18 April 1899
NLB/30/111	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society	31 January 1905
NLB/32/253	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society	5 February 1906
NLB/31/753	Copy letter from Robert Frederick William Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society, Capel House, Kew Green, Surrey	8 November 1905
MC/21/49	Letter from Dietrich Brandis, Germany, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	20 November 1906
NLB/33/350	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Dietrich Brandis, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 August 1906
NLB/35/599	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Schlich, Fellow of the Royal Society	18 June 1907
NLB/3/916	List of corrections in the addresses of Royal Society Fellows	8 November 1889
MC/10/275	Letter from D [Dietrich] Brandis, Simla, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London	19 July 1875
MC/10	Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	July 1873-1876
MC/17/252	Letter from Dietrich Brandis, Capel House, Kew Green, London, to The Royal Society	4 April 1899
MC/17	Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1897-1899
MC/21/48	Letter from Dietrich Brandis, Germany, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	20 November 1906
MC/22/376	Letter from William Schlich, Ferlys Lodge, 29 Banbury Road, Oxford,to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison	19 June 1907
MC/21/47	Letter from Dietrich Brandis, Capel House, Kew, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	2 May 1906
MC/22	Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1907
MC/21	Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1906

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