Melbourne bot. Garden
6/9/66.
Sir John.1
I have the honor to report to your Excellency, that Dr James Atkin White, a native of Manchester, has been engaged as Surgeon to the Expedition sent out in search of Dr Leichhardts party,2 and that this Officer proceeds to day by the Steamship City of Melbourne on his way to join the search party now stationed at Gilliot3 Creek, Carpentaria.
I am your Excellencys
deeply obedient
Ferd. Mueller, M.D., F.R.S.
His Excellency the honorable Sir John Manners-Sutton, KCB.,
Governor of Victoria &c &c &c
Some accounts in the Melbourne press of the arrival in Victoria of the new Governor in August 1886 refer to him as Sir John Manners-Sutton, using his first given name (e.g. Herald, 13 August 1886, p. 2); others, however, reflected his preferred use of his second given name, referring to him as 'Sir J. Henry Manners Sutton' (Argus, 13 August 1866, p. 4).
Ladies' Leichhardt Search Expedition.
Gilliat?
Please cite as “FVM-66-09-06,” 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