From Andrew Berry1    21 August 1886

August 21st 1886.

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that four of the students of Botany2 have notified their intention to present themselves as Candidates for The School's Certificate of competency in that subject at the forthcoming examinations on the 18th September proximo

And by direction to ask you, as Examiner, to be so good as to prepare and forward at your convenience a paper of questions for examination of the Candidates

I have the honor to be

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant

Andw Berry

Registrar

 

Sir Ferdinand von Mueller K.C.M.G.

&c. &c. &c.

Melbourne

1
For reply see M to A. Berry, 24 August 1886.
2
Emily Coundon, Thomas Day, Margaret Douglas, Mary Amy Lee (The School of Mines Ballarat. Annual Report 1886, Ballarat, 1887, p. 60).

Please cite as “FVM-86-08-21b,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-08-21b