From Frederick McCoy   26 January 1860

University

26th January 1860

My dear Dr Müller

The [present] of your genial Address as President of the Philosophical Institute induces me to make the offer through you of presenting to the Society (in case I obtain the sanction of the government to my suggestion) a series of such duplicate specimens of Natural History as may from time to time be spared from the National Museum of which I am Director.1

I also take the opportunity of congratulating you on the title of Royal Society having been sanctioned by Her Majesty during your Presidency.2

Ever my dear Dr Müller

very truly yours

Frederick McCoy

 

Dr Müller

President of the Royal Society of Victoria3

1
McCoy had doubtless received a preprint of M’s address at the opening of the Philosophical Institute’s hall on 21 December 1859 (B60.06.02), in the course of which (p. 205) M looked forward to a time when ‘collections from every region of the globe shall to the searching eye unfold that harmony eternal which Isis’ works pervade’. M returned corrected proofs of his address to the Institute’s secretary, J. Macadam, on the same day as he wrote to McCoy (see 60-01-26a in this edition).
2
That permission had been granted to change the name of the Philosophical Institute to ‘Royal Society of Victoria’ was announced at a special meeting of the Institute on 23 January 1860.
3
See also M to F. McCoy, 27 January 1860.

Please cite as “FVM-60-01-26,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/60-01-26