January 16th [188]81
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 1st of January 18882 I have the honour to inform you that the Trustees will gladly accept the medals offered by you.3
I may state that only a limited number of copies of works intended for distribution are at the disposal of the Trustees, and they are reserved for presentation in return for important donations made to the Library.
I would suggest that you should ask the Premier to forward copies of the works required to the Public Library for transmission to the Union for Natural Science, Brunswick.
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
T. F. Bride
Librarian
Baron von Mueller MD., K.C.M.G. &c, &c.
editorial addition.
Letter not found.
Medals not identified. M had earlier donated medals to the Industrial and Technological Museum; see M to M. Clarke, 25 September 1872, and letters cited in notes thereto. A further deposit was made in 1873; see M to R. Barry, 13 May 1873 (in this edition as 73-05-13a). The new donation was no doubt also destined for the Museum.
Please cite as “FVM-88-01-16a,” 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