I appreciate this mode of distinction2 all the more, as I have comparatively done so little to advance the special interests of your important union; but I can assure you that I have watched with pleasure and with advantage to myself the strides made by your Society in enhancing the cultural resources of India and in diffusing a taste for refined Horticultural pursuits also in the great Indian Empire.3
Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘Monthly Proceedings of the Society’, Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1879, p. xxxiii. The text appears in the proceedings for the meeting of 20 November 1879, and is introduced by ‘Letters were read from Lieut.-General Sir Arthur Phayre and Sir Ferdinand Baron von Mueller in acknowledgement of their election as Honorary Members. The Baron writes:—‘. The item is dated to October 1879 as the latest likely date that the letter could have been sent, to be noticed at this meeting.
M was elected an Honorary Member of the Society on 24 July 1879; see the Society’s Journal, 1879, p. xx.
The proceedings for this meeting also record receipt from M of ‘A descriptive Atlas of the Eucalypts of Australia, First and Second Decades—by Sir Ferdinand Baron von Mueller’ (i.e. the first two Decades of B79.13.11).
Please cite as “FVM-79-10-00c,” 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