Document information

Physical location:

MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/1, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 60.01.26a

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Macadam, 1860-01-26 [60.01.26a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/60-01-26a>, accessed July 16, 2025

26/1/60
My dear Dr M'Adam
Mr Becker
1
Ludwig Becker.
requests me to write to you a few lines, soliciting your calling a council meeting for considering the various questions mentioned by him.
2
A meeting of the Council of the Royal Society (formerly Philosophical Institute) of Victoria was held on 30 January, chaired in M's absence by Solomon Iffla, at which 'Dr Becker gave in the report of the Committee "On Drapery" and stated that he had consulted with Mr Reed the Architect'. Although one member present 'objected to the expenditure at present of £40 as estimated', Becker's motion that the report be adopted was carried (MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 1/1, Council minutes, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne).
— I gladly do so, and pray to call the Gentlemen together any time suitable to you next week, and to enter kindly on the notice paper, that we consider the necessary measures to drape our building.
yours regardfully
Ferd. Mueller
I have revised the proof of my adress
3
M’s address at the opening of the Philosophical Institute’s hall on 21 December 1859 (B60.06.02)? In the printed version, it was wrongly stated that the address was delivered at the Institute's meeting on 23 January 1860.
yesterday & returned it this morning.