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.
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