Melbourne botan Garden
18/5/68
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of 2 copies of the 19 fasc. of Capt Beddomes work on Indian ferns, which the Chief Secretary has been pleased to send to the Library of this Institution.1 I beg to return the receipt form for your kind signature.2
I have the honor to be, Sir, your very obed.
Ferd Mueller.
J. Moore Esq. J.P. &c &c
Undersecretary
Beddome (1866-8), transmitted with J. Moore to M, 18 May 1868 (in this edition as 68-05-18a). See Lucas (2026) for discussion of the dates of publication of the parts.
The Government of Madras evidently enclosed a receipt form when items were sent to the Chief Secretary of Victoria, which were then sent to M with the items; see M to J. McCulloch, 15 January 1868, for a case when there was apparently no standard transmission letter to M from the Chief Secretary's Office, but the Madras receipt form was sent to him with the volumes.
Please cite as “FVM-68-05-18b,” 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