Universitas Dublinensis
Viro Illustri
Baroni F. von Müller Eq. Aur. R.S.Soc.
S.P.D.1
Universitas Dublinensis, trecentesimum natalem anno proximo celebratura, doctissimum quemque atque illustrissimum in hospitium suum ad laetitiae communionem vocatum vult. Ergo te, vir praeclare, cuius merita eximia laudibus efferunt cum exteri tum nostrates, salvere iubemus, oramusque ut apud nos commorari velis per dies festos quos indiximus a die quinto ad octavum Julii MDCCCXCII: quod si feceris maximo nos gaudio te adfecturum esse scito.
Dabamus Dublini, die 4to Decembris, MDCCCXCI.
Rosse Cancellarius Universitatis Dublinensis.
Georgius Salmon Praepositus Collegii SS. Trinitatis Dublinensis.
University of Dublin,
To the illustrious man
Baron F. von Mueller Gilded Knight2 FRS3
With warm greetings.
Dublin University, which will celebrate its three hundredth birthday next year, wishes to summon every most learned and distinguished person to its hospitality for a mutual participation of enjoyment. Therefore, oh so famous man, whose outstanding achievements both foreigners and our own proclaim with praises, we bid you welcome and pray that you may wish to be among us on the festive days which we have proclaimed from the 5th to the 8th of July 1892. Know that if you do this you will affect us with the greatest joy.4
We give this at Dublin on 4 December 1891.
Rosse, Chancellor of Dublin University.
George Salmon, President of Trinity College Dublin.
salutem plurimam dicit, a common formulaic Latin epistolary salutation.
i.e. a Knight of high honour, no doubt referring to M's appointment as KCMG.
i.e. Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
Mueller did not attend, see M to E. Wright, May 1892 (in this edition as 92-05-00) and notes thereto.
MS is a printed certificate, with M’s name and description and the signatures inserted by hand.
Please cite as “FVM-91-12-04a,” 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