10/1/84
This day, dear Prof Tate, I got a letter from Mr Thiselton-Dyer,1 the Assistant Director of Kew, urging that some leading specialist in Geology should take particularly charge of your Candidature at the R.S. Please write at once to your geologic friends to cooperate with Mr Dyer in your interest.2 He requested me, on the suggestion of Prof Mich Foster,3 to write out special notes in reference to your researches, which I have done forthwith.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Letter not found; but see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 January 1884 (in this edition as 84-10-01a).
As finally lodged, Tate's nomination certificate at the Royal Society of London included, in addition to the signatures of his Australian and NZ sponsors (M, James Hector, Julius Haast, Frederick McCoy, Robert Ellery and George Verdon), those of Sir Henry Barkly, the botanists Daniel Oliver and J. G. Baker, and the palaeontologists Robert Etheridge Sr and H. B. Woodward.
Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society of London at the time.
Please cite as “FVM-84-01-10b,” 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