Government House.
Brisbane
8th April 1892
To/
The Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller
K.C.M.G. M & PhD. F.R.S.
Baron,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 2nd instant,1 informing me that, for reasons stated in your letter, the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia has made me an Honorary Member of their Branch and enclosing a Diploma of membership.2
I shall be much obliged by your informing the members that I am exceedingly obliged to them for the high distinction thus conferred upon me and that I accept it with much pleasure.
I desire to express to you, Baron, my appreciation of the courteous terms in which you have communicated to me the Resolution of the members.
Believe me
Baron
Very faithfully yours
H. W. Norman
Letter not found.
Norman was elected an Honorary Member of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia at a meeting of the Council of the Branch held on 23 March 1892, along with Sir Robert Hamilton, Governor of Tasmania, who had presided over the congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held in Hobart in January 1892, and Sir William Dawson, the eminent Canadian geologist and Principal of McGill University, Montreal (Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch, vol. 10 (1893), p. 3).
Please cite as “FVM-92-04-08,” 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