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RefNoEC/1866/03
Previous numbersCert X, 87
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TitleFarrar, Frederick William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationMember of the Council of the Ethonological Society - Author of a work on "the origin of Language" and also of a work Entitled "Chapters on Language". Has contributed papers to the British Association for the Advancement of Science and to the Ethnological Transactions; also to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, & other important Works. Has endeavoured while a Master at Harrow to introduce the study of Science, & Especially of Botany, into the system of public school teaching.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Charles Darwin; T Hewitt Key; Charles C Babington; J L Knight Bruce; J Gwyn Jeffreys; E W Brayley
From Personal Knowledge. J Crawfurd; Andrew Scott Waugh; Tho Graham; Rich Westmacott; Stanhope; W Whewell; John Lubbock; R G Latham; J C D Hay; J Clerk Maxwell; Jas Fergusson; Henry Stebbing; John Evans; John Penn
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Farrar, Frederick William: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6275Farrar; Frederick William (1831 - 1903)1831 - 1903
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