The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [It has also been suggested to us by Baron Sir Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D., etc., Government Botanist in Melbourne, that perhaps the various medical societies in Australia might combine ...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian Medical Gazette, 1891-02 [91.02.00b]. 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/91-02-00b>, accessed September 11, 2025

Letter not found. The text gives here is from Australasian medical gazette , March 1891, p. 175. The text is preceded by

We have been requested to announce to the Profession in Australasia that Professor R. Virchow, of Berlin, will celebrate his 70th birthday on the 13th October next, and that it is intended to present him, in grateful recognition of his personal merits and of his services in furtherance of medical science, with a large gold portrait medal of 180 m.m. (about seven inches in diameter), to be made by some eminent artist. A large and influential committee has been formed to carry out this intention, the Hon. Treasurer being Mr. Adolph Meyer, 48 Koniggratzer-Strasse, Berlin, S.W., to whom contributions may be sent.

[It has also been suggested to us by Baron Sir Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D., etc., Government Botanist in Melbourne, that perhaps the various medical societies in Australia might combine and send a congratulatory cablegram to Professor Virchow on his coming birthday.]

See also M to R. Virchow, 4 August 1891 (in this edition as 91-08-04b). On Virchow's sixtieth birthday, the committee of the Medical Society of Victoria had, 'at the suggestion of Baron von Mueller', sent a congratulatory letter to Virchow ( Australian medical journal , 15 September 1881, p. 405).