Marginal note: 'Copy of Circular Despatch from Colonial Office of 26th January & enclosed Paper on the Botanical Enterprise of the Empire by Professor Thiselton Dyer. 2 Copies'.
On 26 January 1881, Earl Kimberley sent a circular to the Victorian Government saying that he was sending 'copies of a paper on the Botanical Enterprise of the Empire which was read before the Royal Colonial Institute on the 11th of May last by Professor Thiselton Dyer, the Assistant Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew' (i.e. Thisleton-Dyer (1880c)). M had previously seen the lecture in the version published in The colonies and India (Thiseton-Dyer (1880)), and in M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 July 1880, had reacted to the comments about him that it included.
On 19 April M noted on the file: 'I beg to express my best thanks for the transmission of Mr Dyers publication, one of which with his Excellencys permission I shall retain'. An annotation on the file shows that the accompanying Despatch was returned on 22 April.
MS annotation: 'A similar communication has been sent to the Department of Agriculture'.
Please cite as “FVM-81-04-14,” 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