The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: My Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I beg to recommend bearer ¶ to You, he is anxious to obtain an appointment in the Exploring Expedition — I know him to be an Excellent man

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Physical location:

MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2076/3, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 60.06.21a

Preferred Citation:

Richard Tracy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1860-06-21 [60.06.21a]. 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//letters/1860-9/1860/60-06-21a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

In a letter of 23 June 1860 addressed ‘To the Honble Secretary of the Exploration Committee’, Jabez Glover applied to be on the staff of the expedition being planned that came to be known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition, 1860-1. He named as his referees, the Chief Secretary and Dr Richard Tracy. In forwarding Tracy's letter, M annotated it: ' Memo : Referred to the hon. Secr of the Explor. Committee | 20/6/60. | Ferd. Mueller'. M made a mistake in the date, because both Glover's letter and Tracy's cover note are dated later than his memorandum.

My Dear Dr Mueller

I beg to recommend bearer

Jabez Glover.

to You, he is anxious to obtain an appointment in the Exploring Expedition — I know him to be an Excellent man —

Yours Very truly

Richd. T. Tracy MD

Brunswick St

21st June 1860

Glover was not appointed by Burke to the Expedition party; see M et al. to the Royal Society of Victoria, December 1860 (in this edition as 60-12-00).