August 22nd 1882.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that one Candidate1 has entered for examination this Term in Botany. — This being the first Candidate for the Certificate of The School in this subject I am at a loss to know what you will require for the conduct of the examination. — If the examination be wholly a written one — by Question-paper — then I will ask you to be so good as to forward to me as early as possible a copy of the Questions in order that I may have time to get them printed:— if the examination be oral, — or partly written, and partly oral, — then I would ask you kindly to advise me with reference to what may be necessary for me to provide for the occasion. — It occurred to me that as you are coming up to Ballaarat2 to deliver a lecture at The School on the 13th September proximo — if a part of the examination requires to be conducted orally you might examine the Candidate on the 14th, prior to your returning to Melbourne
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
Andw Berry
Acting Registrar
Baron V. Müller K.C.M.G.
&c. &c. &c.
Melbourne
George Porter Day; see Ballarat School of Mines: Annual report 1882 (1883), p. 91. Day was granted the Certificate of Competence in General Botany on 18 October 1882, after M's report on his performance dated 26 September 1882 was read to the Council (School of Mines Ballarat, minute book, School of Mines and Industries Ballarat Limited). See also A. Berry to M, 21 September 1882, and A. Berry to M, 29 September 1882.
Old spelling for Ballarat, Vic.
For reply, see M to A. Berry, 23 August 1882.
Please cite as “FVM-82-08-22a,” 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