File contains proposal forms for the following:
Henry Bowman Brady, zoology;
Francesco Brioschi, mathematics;
Prof J Willard Gibbs, Yale College, Connecticut, physics;
Rudolf Heidenhain, physiology, University of Breslau;
Prof Heinrich Hertz, science of electromagnetism, University of Bonn;
George William Hill, astronomy;
Leopold Kronecker, mathematics;
Sophus Lie, mathematics;
Elias [Elie] Metchnikoff, embryology;
Henri Poincaré, mathematics;
Professor Arthur Schuster of Owens College Manchester, physics;
Melchior Treub, botany, Director of the Botanical Gardens, Java;
James Dwight Dana, New Haven, Connecticut, mineralogy and geology;
Victor Meyer, University of Gottingen, chemistry.