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VICTORIA, Queen (1819-1901). A document on 2-pages, SIGNED at the head by Queen Victoria ("Victoria R."), appointing William Turner Thiselton-Dyer as a Fellow of the University of London, with a portrait of Queen Victoria, in common mount, framed and glazed, 360 x 445mm., 1887. William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928) was an eminent British botanist, author and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He was a Fellow of the University of London from 1887 to 1890.