To Edward Bulwer Lytton   16 August 1858

Melbourne botanical & zoological Garden

16 Aug. 1858.

Sir

Having expressed to His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K. C. B., my great desire of being permitted to publish here those notes on the Botany of the North Australian Expedition, which can be elaborated without consulting European libraries & collections, I have been instructed by his Excellency, to solicit from her Majesty's Government the sanction for such publication under the authority of the Victorian Government.1

I beg leave to add, that by this means my labours at a later period in Kew for furnishing the issue of the notes on the Botany of North Australia would be greatly alleviated.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient & humble servant

Ferd. Mueller, M.D., Ph. D.,

Botanist to the N. Austr. Exped.

 

The Right Honorable

Sir Edw. Bulwer Lytton, Bart, &c &c &c

H. M. Minister for the Colonies.

The request was sanctioned by Bulwer Lytton on 23 October 1858, and Barkly was informed that 'H.M.'s Government has no objection' (Bulwer Lytton to Barkly, 29 October 1858; National Archives, London, CO 201/507, f. 500). See alsoO. Timins to M, 14 February 1859 where M is informed of the decision.

Please cite as “FVM-58-08-16,” 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/58-08-16