From Robert Dickson   27 August 1861

Exploration Committee

Royal Society of Victoria

Melbourne Augt 27th 1861

Sir

I have been instructed to forward you the accompanying document, and to request that you will be so good as to return the same, when you have inspected it, with your report thereon.1

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your Obedient Servant

(Signed) Robert Dickson

Asst Secretary

E.C.R.S.V.

 

Dr Mueller

Government Botanist

1
At an Exploration Committee meeting on 23 August 1861 that M did not attend, dispatches from Alfred Howitt’s expedition to Cooper’s Creek were considered and it was agreed that the report on plants should be forwarded to M with a request that he report thereon (Box 2088B/1).

Please cite as “FVM-61-08-27,” 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 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/61-08-27