Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne,

11 April 1889.

T. R. Wilson Esqr,

Undersecretary &c

Sir

In acknowledging the receipt of your thoughtful communication of the 9th inst., it is very gratifying to me, that such departmental aid, as I could afford to Surgeon Kirtikar during his stay in Victoria, was so much appreciated by this Delegate from Bombay to the Melbourne Medical Congress,

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Intercolonial Medical Congress, Melbourne, January 1889.

he having also brought valuable Indian materia medica collections, which he placed into the Museum of the Medical School of the Melbourne-University. Furthermore arrangements are made for our keeping up scientific communications with this clever officer. I felt, that on behalf of the Government all the more facilities should be afforded on such an occasion as his visit, because the Congress, as being attended by hundreds of medical Gentlemen, brought also a large sum of money into disbursement here , which otherwise would never have been expended in Victoria.