Royal Society of Victoria.
Victoria Street,
Melbourne, 29th July 1863
Sir,
A Meeting of the Subcommittee will be held at ½ past 4 o'clock p.m., on Friday the 31st inst at which you are requested to be present.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
[C V Donald]1
pro Hon. Secretary.
BUSINESS.
To decide upon the manner in which Dr Macadam's motion is to be carried out.2
P.S. I forgot to mention to you, when in the Hall this morning, that there are no papers for reading at next Ordinary Meeting on 10 Augt /63, perhaps you know of some Gentlemen who wd kindly contribute one for that meeting.
[CVD]
Signature uncertain; the person concerned was probably the Society's clerk at the time.
At the Ordinary Meeting of the Society held on 20 July 1863, it had been resolved 'That the members of the Royal Society of Victoria should take steps to testify their appreciation of the services of His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c., who has, for so many years, acted as Patron and President, and done so much towards furthering the main and permanent objects of the Society'. M was nominated a member of the committee established to consider how best to do this (Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 6, Proceedings, p. xxxv), At the Ordinary Meeting held on 31 August 1863, the last Barkly attended before leaving the colony to take up his new appointment as Governor of Mauritius, M, who had in the meantime become Secretary of the Society following the resignation of Robert Brough Smyth, read a valedictory address on behalf of the Society and then presented this to Barkly (M to H. Barkly, 31 August 1863).
Notice found inserted in a copy of Victoria Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, 1872.
Please cite as “FVM-63-07-29,” 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