Melbourne bot. Garden
6/7/70.
Sir
In reply to your letter, received this day,1 inviting me to deliver one of the inaugural discourses, by which a system of industrial teaching is to be initiated at the technologic Museum, I beg to assure the trustees, that I will be happy to respond to the call, if my fluctuating health will permit me to do so. The planting operations during the cool season and also the duties this year to establish the phytologic section in the technologic museum, together with the work for the Sydney Exhibition2 will leave me no leisure for some time. Hence any lecture of mine must be one of the last of the series.3
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.
Director of the botan Garden
Marcus Clarke Esq
Secretary to the Trustee of the Museum of the public Library.
Letter not found.
Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, August 1870. See also M to W. Guilfoyle, 29 September 1870, and notes thereto, and M to W. Guilfoyle, 15 October 1870.
MS annotation: 'received & acknowledged with thanks. 16th August'; initialed ‘S H B’ [i.e. S. H. Bindon]. See M. Clarke to M, 17 August 1870 (in this edition as 70-07-17a).
Please cite as “FVM-70-07-06c,” 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