May 19 [18]801
My Dear Baron Von Mueller,
I consider it due to you to send in addition to the ordinary official acknowledgment of your valuable donation the thanks of the Trustees for your generosity and public spirit in presenting to them the handsome Volume named in the Margin.2
Such an instance of self abnegation by which you bestow on the Institution a Work, the tribute of an illustrious personage to your scientific eminence and distinction is thoroughly appreciated.
I have the honor to be
my Dear Baron
very faithfully yours
Redmond Barry3
President
To Baron Von Mueller F.R.S. &c. &c. &c.
Government Botanist
editorial addition.
MS annotation: 'Aroideae Maximilianae die auf der Reise Sr Majestat des Kaisers Maximilian I nach Brasilien Gesammelten Arongewachse nach handschriftlichen Aufzeichnungen folio Wien 1879' (i.e. Peyritsch (1879)). See M to R. Barry, 17 April 1880 (in this edition as 80-04-17b).
See also M to R. Barry, 19 May 1880 (in this edition as 80-05-19b).
Please cite as “FVM-80-05-19a,” 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