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RefNoEC/1814/36
Previous numbersCert VI, 281; A03651
LevelItem
TitleHumboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationForeign Member
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, a Gentleman well known to the learned world for his extensive travels, particularly in South and North America, and for his many valuable publications on various Sciences, is recommended by us, the underwritten, on our knowledge of himself or his works, as a proper person to be chosen a foreign Member of the Royal Society
ProposersWm H Wollaston; Thomas Thomson; Edwd Rudge; Charles Hatchett; Chas Konig; W A Cadell; B C Brodie; W G Maton; Gilvert Blane; James Watt; John Walker; S Tennant; Fr Milman; G B Greenough; Edw Troughton; Davies Giddy; John Rennie; S Solly; Thomas Young; C Blagden; Thomas Harrison; Robert Brown; J Pond
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Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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CodePersonNameDates
NA7984Humboldt; Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 - 1859); naturalist and traveller1769 - 1859
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