17 July /66
To Dr Mueller
Sir
I have the honor to acknowle the rect1 of yr note of this day's date,2 & in reply thereto I beg to inform you that the paragraph you refer to was written by Mr Oakes who is an experienced reporter & was formerly in the Argus — after the meetg broke up Dr Bleasdale who had some business to transact with me remained behind, & before he left the paragraph in question was read over & approved by him — Mr Oakes was sitting behind the President during the whole time of the meetg & his business was solely to prepare the reports for the newspapers — I have carefully read over the accounts as published3 & I think they are substantially correct, so far as briefly epitomizing the business done — I have also looked over my own notes & I find the followg "The report to stand over for further consideration & committee to furnish estimate of cost & time of production."
I have &c
J G K
Please cite as “FVM-66-07-17a,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-07-17a