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RefNoEC/1868/19
Previous numbersCert X, 139
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TitleTristram, Henry Baker: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAuthor of "The Great Sahara" (London, Murray, 1860) and of numerous papers on Ornithology, Conchology and other branches of Natural History in the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" the "Ibis" and other scientific Journals - distinguished as a traveller, who has devoted much time and great attention to Natural History in the Bermudas, in Algeria & Tunis, and in Palestine - and has collected large numbers of specimens in those countries - and greatly increased our knowledge of their natural products.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Charles Darwin; Thomas Bell; J Gwyn Jeffreys; J Beete Jukes; James Salter; C C Babington; James Heywood; Isaac Fletcher; Jh Prestwich; E W Cooke.
From Personal Knowledge. Richard Owen; Cha Lyell; John Lubbock; John Gould; P L Sclater; T Spencer Cobbold; W H Flower; T H Huxley; Wm Jardine; Jos D Hooker; John Hogg; Wm Pengelly; George Bentham; Thomas Thomson; John Tyndall; E W Cooke; G B Buckton; T Spratt
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Tristram, Henry Baker: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7571Tristram; Henry Baker (1822 - 1906)1822 - 1906
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