To his Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., Captain General and Governor of the colony of Victoria &c &c &c
The memorial of Ferdinand James Henry Mueller, Ph.D., of Melbourne respectfully sheweth
That your Memorialist is 32 years of age and is Director of the botanic garden of Melbourne and Colonial Botanist of Victoria.
That your Memorialist arrived in the Colony of Victoria in August 1852 by the "Hero", and has been resident therein since that time, except during his engagement by her Majesty's Home-Government for the North Australian Expedition.
That your Memorialist begs to refer in regard to his character to the statements appended from respectable persons, to whom your Memorialist has been known since his arrival in the colony.1
That your Memorialist intends to hold real property in the said colony and is therefore desirous of availing himself of the privileges granted to Aliens by the Act of Council XI Victoria N. 39.2
That to your Memorialist a Certificate of Naturalisation has been granted by His Excellency Sir Henry Young in South Australia under the Ordinance N. 7 of 1846 on the 9th Aug. 1849.
That your Memorialist therefore respectfully requests, that your Excellency may be pleased to grant to your Memorialist a Certificate under the provisions of the said Act, conferring upon your Memorialist the privileges of a natural born British subject with such restrictions as to your Excellency may seem fit
And your Petitioner will ever pray
Dated the 9 day of September 1857.
Ferd. Mueller.3
Please cite as “FVM-57-09-09,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-09-09