Internationale
Koloniale en Uitvoerhandel Tentoonstelling te Amsterdam 1883.
Eere Diploma
Toegekend aan Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
Afdeeling Kolonien Groep I Klasse 5
De Minister van Kolonien Eerevoorzitter der Tentoonstelling [...]
De Voorzitter van de Internationale Jurij [...]
De Commissaris generaal der Tentoonstelling [...]
Voor het Comite van Uitvoering De Voorzitter D. Cordes
Het gedelegeerde lid S. de [...]
De Secretarissen [...]
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International Colonial and Overseas Trade Exhibition in Amsterdam 1883.
Diploma of Honour
Awarded to Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
Colonial Division Group 1 Class 5
Minister for the Colonies Honorary President of the Exhibition […]
President of the International Jury […]
Commissioner General of the Exhibition […]
For the Administrative Committee the President D. Cordes
Delegated member S. de […]
Secretaries […]
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Certificate is accompanied by another signed by Louis L. Smith, president of the Victorian Commission for the Amsterdam Exhibition: 'I hereby certify that the Jurors of the Amsterdam International Exhibition, 1883, have awarded a Diploma of Honour to Baron F von Mueller K.C.M.G. for an exhibit of botanical specimens &c &c.' This phrasing suggests that the diploma was awarded for an album of 'Select Australian flowers, new for horticulture' which at M's suggestion was later presented to the King of the Netherlands, Willem III, by George Levey, Commissioner for Victoria at the Amsterdam Exhibition. (Levey's covering letter dated 6 September 1883 and a file copy of a letter of acknowledgment dated 4 October 1883 are in the Koninklijk Huisarchief, The Hague, as is the album itself.) The Victorian exhibit also included a large Todea and a set of 'wood-books' supplied by M; see M to Messrs Watson & Scull, 28 February 1883, and M to W. Carruthers, 27 August 1883, respectively.
MS is a printed certificate on which the Group and Class numbers are entered by hand. Most of the signatures are illegible.
Please cite as “FVM-83-00-00a,” 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