From the Bendigo School of Mines to Ferdinand von Mueller   [Aug 1879]

[The best thanks of the council were also1 ordered to be forwarded to Baron Von Mueller, for his donation of an album containing 58 varieties of pharmaceutical plants for the use of the school.]2

A letter of condolence was also ordered to be sent to the widow of Judge Bindon.

A similar set, of 60 specimens, was sent to the Ballarat School of Mines and announced at the meeting of the School's administrative council on 14 August 1879 ('Ballarat', Argus, 16 August 1879, p. 5).

Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the 7 August 1879 meeting of the Council of the Bendigo School of Mines, in 'School of Mines', Bendigo advertiser, 8 August 1879, p. 2.

Please cite as “FVM-79-08-00g,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-08-00g