| RefNo | EC/1869/05 |
| Previous numbers | Cert X, 144 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Baker, Sir Samuel White: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Citation | Eminently distinguished as a Geographer and Explorer of distant lands; Discoverer of the Great Lake of Equatorial Africa named by him the "Albert Nyanza" (Great Basin of the Nile); Author of the following works: - "Eight years' Wanderings in Ceylon," "The Rifle and the Hound," "The Albert Nyanza, or Great Basin of the Nile," "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia;" The Recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, and of the Grande Medaille d'Or of the Societe de Geographie de Paris. |
| Proposers | From General Knowledge. Wm Pole; Thos Sopwith; Edward Hull.
From Personal Knowledge. Rod I Murchison; Richard Owen; H Rawlinson; Stanhope; Henry Holland; Andrew Scott Waugh; C Wheatstone; Francis Galton; W Spottiswoode; John Tyndall; E B Beaumont; James Paget; W Bovill; E J Lowe; D T Ansted |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6523 | Baker; Sir; Samuel White (1821 - 1893) | 1821 - 1893 |