South-Yarra1
7/7/96.
Ch. Topp Esqr M.A. LLB, FLS.,
Under Secretary.
Sir.
I have the honor to inform you, that I received a letter quite recently from the Ural Science Society, dated Katharinenburg 14 April 1896,2 in which communication the save arrival of the Books, transmitted from here through the Agent Generals Office in London is acknowledged3 This distinguished Society acknowledges the generosity of the Victorian Government in the following words, "The active protection given by your high colonial Government to scientific researches and publications cannot be praised enough by all scientists of the world! We should be very happy to prove in any way our gratefulness to your high Governments munificence". These expressions are quite voluntary and it may be pleasing to the honorable the Minister to hear also these sentiments.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist
The publications as they successively arrive from Katharinenburg, are regularly place into the Library of my branch.4
Melbourne.
Letter not found.
See M to C. Topp, 7 April 1895 (in this edition as 95-04-07a); C. Topp to M, 19 April 1895; and M to R. Rogers, 10 December 1895.
The Library of RBGV has an incomplete set of Bulletin de la Societe ouralienne d'amateurs des sciences naturelles from 1896-97 to 1915-16, with the major gap after 1896-97 until 1909.
Please cite as “FVM-96-07-07,” 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