[Dr. Mueller then read a communication from Mr. J. W. Osborne, Government photo-lithographer, who was now in Europe, on the specimens of Victorian essential oils sent to the International Exhibition, and to this letter was appended a report upon the same by Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S.1 Some discussion ensued, in which Mr. Bosisto complained that his name, as the distiller of most of those oils, had been improperly ignored by Mr. Osborne; and the meeting terminated.]
Presumably John Hall Gladstone (1827-1902) had provided Osborne with details of the oils included in Gladstone (1864), published 1 January 1864. The essential oils Gladstone discussed included oils distilled from five species (Atherosperma moschatum, Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. oleosa, Melaleuca ericifolia, and M. linarifolia) provided to him by Osborne from among the oils that had been included in the Victorian exhibit at the London International Exhibition of 1862.
Letter not found. The text given here is from the report of the meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria held on 21 September 1863 (Argus, 22 September 1863, p. 5, col. f).
It is dated to July 1863 as the latest date the letter could have been sent to have reached M in time to be read at the meeting of 21 September, the European mails up to 27 July having arrived in Melbourne on 10 September (Leader (Melbourne), 12 September 1863, p. 5.
Please cite as “FVM-63-07-00c,” 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