Friedrich Franz
von Gottes Gnaden Grossherzog von Mecklenburg, Fürst zu Wenden, Schwerin und Ratzeburg, auch Graf zu Schwerin, der Lande Rostock und Stargard Herr etc. etc.
Wir bezeugen durch gegenwärtiges
Diplom
dass Wir den Dr Ferdinand Müller, Professor der Botanik an der Universität in Melbourne zum Ritter
des Hausordens der Wendischen Krone
in Grundlage des Statuts dieses Ordens ernannt haben.
Schwerin den 9. November 1865.
Friedrich Franz
J v Oertzen
We, Friedrich Franz, by the Grace of God Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, Prince of Wenden, Schwerin and Ratzeburg, also Count of Schwerin, Sovereign of the Counties of Rostock and Stargard, etc., etc., testify by this Diploma, that we have created Dr Ferdinand Mueller, Professor of Botany at the University of Melbourne,1 a Knight of the House-Order of the Wendish Crown in accordance with the statutes of this Order.
Schwerin, 9 November 1865.
Friedrich Franz.
J v Oertzen2
M was never a professor of the University of Melbourne.
Jasper von Oertzen. See also J. von Oertzen to M, 9 November 1865 (in this edition as 65-11-09a). An official announcement of M's appointment, dated Schwerin, 13 November 1865, was published in Regierungs-Blatt für das Grossherzogthum Mecklenburg-Schwerin, No. 47, 1865, p. 293.
MS is a certificate with a seal blind-stamped in the lower left quarter.
Please cite as “FVM-65-11-09,” 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