| RefNo | EC/1893/14 | 
| Previous numbers | Cert XI, 246 | 
| Level | Item | 
| Title | Trail, James William Helenus: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 
| Citation | Regius Professor of Botany (since 1877) in the University of Aberdeen.  Corresp K-K Zool -Botan Gesell, Vienna, and Soc Nat Sci et Math, Cherbourg.  Made, in 1874, important botanical collections in the valley of the Amazon, in North Brazil.  Author of a paper on the Palms collected on the occasion (Journ of Bot, 1876); of a 'Revision of Scottish 'Discomycetes'' (Scottish Naturalist, NS, iv, 1889); of a paper on the Gall-making Diptera of Scotland (ibid, 1888), and of numerous others. | 
| Proposers | From Personal Knowledge: W T Thiselton-Dyer; J G Baker; W Botting Hemsley; C B Clarke; Danl Oliver; Wm C Williamson; H Marshall Ward; H H Godwin-Austen | 
| Extent | 1 sheet | 
| AccessStatus | Open | 
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates | 
| NA1431 | Trail; James William Helenus (1851 - 1919) | 1851 - 1919 |