Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.139/43 Clarke family papers, folder 200, pp. 641-4, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 64.02.02

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Branwhite Clarke, 1864-02-02. 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/1860-9/1864/64-02-02-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), pp. 664-5.
2/2/64
Dear & reverend friend.
I wish merely briefly to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter with enclosures
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Letter and enclosures not found.
& to thank you for the trouble you have gone to in regards to the contemplated borings at the Stoney Creek.
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See M to W. B. Clarke, 10 November 1863.
The Council of the Royal Society is not likely to meet until the new Officers are to be installed in March; hence I shall probably have to defer your communications til that time, when I will do myself the pleasure of writing again to you.
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No further letter on this subject has been found.
Now I beg to ask of you a favor. Dr Scherzer of the Novara Expedition
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The Austrian around-the-world scientific exploring expedition, 1857-9.
complains, that certain copies of the works published by him in relation to this voyage & entrusted to Sir Redm. Barry for distribution fully a year ago had not reached Sydney & New Zealand. In Sir Redm. Barrys absence I communicated with the Librarian of the Melbourne public Library, who assures me that the volumes had been sent at the time at once to the N.S.W. Government & N.Z. Government. Most probably they are mislaid at some of the Governments Offices. Would there be any possibility to enquire on the subject? If you can do so without any inconvenience you would oblige me, in order that I may reply to Scherzer.
Wishing you uninterrupted health & every blessings of this life
I remain, dear Mr Clarke
your regardful
Ferd Mueller
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MS annotation by Clarke: 'Mem: I reported in reply, that the volumes had been received here; — though after some delay arising probably from the direction on the box to " Sir Charles Cowper". — I wrote to Dr Hochstetter to offer my private & personal thanks for my copy. Perhaps it might be well, if an official answer could be forwarded to Dr Scherzer the Editor in Wien or to Commodore Baron Von Wüllerstorf in Pola, Austria. W.B.C.' There is a further marginal note on this: ‘[…], Mem: was for the Col. Secy. to return: the letter was sent’.