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RefNoEC/1787/36
Previous numbersCert V, 97; A06316
LevelItem
TitleSaussure, Horace Benedict de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationHenry Benedict de Saussure Member of the Great Council of Geneva, and of several learned Academies, and author of various celebrated works chiefly on Natural Philosophy, particularly a Treatise on Hygrometry, and Travels into the Alps, being desirous of the honour of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society on the foreign List; We the underwritten do hereby recommend him as a Gentleman of distinguished Merit, whose election we are persuaded will do credit to the Society
ProposersJohn Turton; Stanhope; J De Salis; S Harper; E W Gray; C Blagden; H Cavendish; Palmerston; Roger Wilbraham; Henry C Englefield; Alexr Aubert; Wm Young; Tho Bowdler; R H A Bennet; Wm Coxe
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Saussure, Horace Benedict de: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1653Saussure; Horace Benedict de (1740 - 1799)1740 - 1799
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