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RefNoEC/1876/18
Previous numbersCert X, 290
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TitleSwinhoe, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationA gentleman distinguished for his numerous observations & discoveries in various branches of natural science. Author of the "North China Campaign" 1860; & of numerous papers on Ornithology in the Ibis, between the years 1860 & 1870. Also of papers on the Mammals, Reptiles, & Batrachians of China in the Proc Zoolog Soc during the years 1863 to 1873.
Also in the Journal of the Royal Geograph Soc of "The expedition up the Yangtszee River". In the Journal of the Ethnological Soc on the Aborigines of Formosa; & in Philological Journal, on the Chinese Dialect of Hainan.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge. Charles Darwin; J E Gray; A Gunther; John Gould; P L Sclater; Walden; John Lubbock; Alfred Newton; T Spencer Cobbold; Hy B Tristram; Geo Busk; W H Flower
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Swinhoe, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA6017Swinhoe; Robert (1836 - 1877)1836 - 1877
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