I feel that I discharge a duty in recommending to the favorable consideration of the Patrons and Directors of the Royal Literary Fund Mr James Rennie, who is well known in every civilized part of the globe as a meritorious contributor towards the natural sciences. Highly advanced in age2 he solicitously hopes, that he may share in the aid, by which the Royal Literary Fund Committee relieves always so nobly authors undeservedly in distress.
Melbourne botanic and zoologic Gardens
10 May 1859
Ferd Mueller
M.D., Ph.D., F.R.G & L.S.
President of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria
Please cite as “FVM-59-05-10a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-05-10a