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Physical location:

RB MSS M200b.13, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 66.07.25

Preferred Citation:

the Academia Literarum et Scientiarum Regia Boica to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-07-25. 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/66-07-25>, accessed May 9, 2025

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MS is a certificate, decorated with a drawn profile of a Roman male, and bearing the seal of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Letters and Sciences, next to the signatures of the office bearers.
ACADEMIA
literarum et scientiarum
REGIA BOICA
Te FERDINANDUM JACOBUM HENRICUM MÜLLER, coloniae Victoriae phytographum, qui terras australes studiose investigando egregiisque scriptis illustrando de scientia naturali summopere meruisti, Socium literarum commercio junctum in consessu die XXIII. m. Junii habito cooptavit.
Postquam hoc novum inter nos consortium auctoritate Regia die XIX. m. Jul. confirmatum et in consessu publico Academiae hodie proclamatum est, in ejus testimonium has literas sigillo Academiae nostrae instructas Tibi mittendas curavimus.
Praeses
Liebig
Secretarius classis mathematico-physicae
C. Fr. Ph. Martius
MONACHII, die XXV. m. Jul. a. MDCCCLXVI.
The Academy
of Letters and Sciences
in the Bavarian Kingdom
has co-opted you, FERDINAND JACOB HEINRICH MÜLLER, phytographer of the colony of Victoria, who, by zealously investigating southern lands and by elucidating [these] in outstanding writings about natural science, has earned especially high praise, as a Corresponding Fellow at an assembly held on the 23rd day of the month of June.
President
Liebig
Secretary of the mathematical-physical class
C. Fr. Ph. Martius
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See C. von Martius to M, 25 July 1866 (in this edition as 66-07-25a).
Munich 25 July 1866.