To Octavius Timins   7 September 1859

Melbourne botanic & zoologic Garden,

7. Sept. 1859.

Sir

I have much pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of a communication,1 with which I am honored by His Excellency the Governor, in reference to a desire of the Java Society of Sciences and arts, to open a literary intercourse with the scientific institutions of Victoria, and I beg, Sir, in reply to state, that I shall not fail to lay at an early date your letter and those of the British Consul of Java and of the Director of the society for sciences and arts in that Island, before the council of the philosophical Institute of Victoria, and do whatever lies in my power to initiate and promote a correspondence, which cannot but be of the highest mutual advantage to both colonies.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient and humble servant

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

pr. temp. President of the phil. Institute of

Victoria.

 

Capt. O. F. Timins &c &c &c

Private Secretary to His Excellency. Governor Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c &c &c2

1
O. Timins to M, 7 September 1859.
2
The letters were read to an ordinary meeting of the Philosophical Institute on 5 October 1859 by the Secretary, J. Macadam. The meeting decided to refer the letters to the Institute's Council. See Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (1860) pp. xxv-xxvi.

Please cite as “FVM-59-09-07a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-09-07a