From the Academia Literarum et Scientiarum Regia Boica1    25 July 1866

ACADEMIA

literarum et scientiarum

REGIA BOICA

 

Te FERDINANDUM JACOBUM HENRICUM MÜLLER, coloniae Victoriae phytographum, qui terras australes studiose investigando egregiisque scriptis illustrando de scientia naturali summopere meruisti, Socium literarum commercio junctum in consessu die XXIII. m. Junii habito cooptavit.

Postquam hoc novum inter nos consortium auctoritate Regia die XIX. m. Jul. confirmatum et in consessu publico Academiae hodie proclamatum est, in ejus testimonium has literas sigillo Academiae nostrae instructas Tibi mittendas curavimus.

Praeses

Liebig

Secretarius classis mathematico-physicae

C. Fr. Ph. Martius

 

MONACHII, die XXV. m. Jul. a. MDCCCLXVI.

 
 

The Academy

of Letters and Sciences

in the Bavarian Kingdom

has co-opted you, FERDINAND JACOB HEINRICH MÜLLER, phytographer of the colony of Victoria, who, by zealously investigating southern lands and by elucidating [these] in outstanding writings about natural science, has earned especially high praise, as a Corresponding Fellow at an assembly held on the 23rd day of the month of June.

President

Liebig

Secretary of the mathematical-physical class

C. Fr. Ph. Martius2

Munich 25 July 1866.

1
MS is a certificate, decorated with a drawn profile of a Roman male, and bearing the seal of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Letters and Sciences, next to the signatures of the office bearers.
2
See Carl von Martius to M, 25 July 1866.

Please cite as “FVM-66-07-25,” 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/66-07-25