To William Branwhite Clarke   2 February 1864

2/2/64

Dear & reverend friend.

I wish merely briefly to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter with enclosures1 & to thank you for the trouble you have gone to in regards to the contemplated borings at the Stoney Creek.2 The Council of the Royal Society is not likely to meet until the new Officers are to be installed in March; hence I shall probably have to defer your communications til that time, when I will do myself the pleasure of writing again to you.3

Now I beg to ask of you a favor. Dr Scherzer of the Novara Expedition4 complains, that certain copies of the works published by him in relation to this voyage & entrusted to Sir Redm. Barry for distribution fully a year ago had not reached Sydney & New Zealand. In Sir Redm. Barrys absence I communicated with the Librarian of the Melbourne public Library, who assures me that the volumes had been sent at the time at once to the N.S.W. Government & N.Z. Government. Most probably they are mislaid at some of the Governments Offices. Would there be any possibility to enquire on the subject? If you can do so without any inconvenience you would oblige me, in order that I may reply to Scherzer.

Wishing you uninterrupted health & every blessings of this life

I remain, dear Mr Clarke

your regardful

Ferd Mueller5

Letter and enclosures not found.
See M to W. B. Clarke, 10 November 1863.
No further letter on this subject has been found.
The Austrian around-the-world scientific exploring expedition, 1857-9.
MS annotation by Clarke: 'Mem: I reported in reply, that the volumes had been received here; — though after some delay arising probably from the direction on the box to "Sir Charles Cowper". — I wrote to Dr Hochstetter to offer my private & personal thanks for my copy. Perhaps it might be well, if an official answer could be forwarded to Dr Scherzer the Editor in Wien or to Commodore Baron Von Wüllerstorf in Pola, Austria. W.B.C.' There is a further marginal note on this: ‘[…], Mem: was for the Col. Secy. to return: the letter was sent’.

Please cite as “FVM-64-02-02,” 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 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-02-02