| Citation | Lieutenant-Colonel Hardwicke, of the Honble East India Company's Service, Fellow of the Linnean Society, and member of the Asiatic Society, - of Wisbech, in the County of Cambridge, - a gentleman very conversant in various branches of science, more particularly Natural History, being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society, we, whose names are subscribed, do, from our personal knowledge, recommend him as worthy of that honor, and likely to prove an useful and valauble member |