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Physical location:

VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 32, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.07.06c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Marcus Clarke, 1870-07-06 [70.07.06c]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-07-06c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
6/7/70.
Sir
In reply to your letter, received this day,
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Letter not found.
inviting me to deliver one of the inaugural discourses, by which a system of industrial teaching is to be initiated at the technologic Museum, I beg to assure the trustees, that I will be happy to respond to the call, if my fluctuating health will permit me to do so. The planting operations during the cool season and also the duties this year to establish the phytologic section in the technologic museum, together with the work for the Sydney Exhibition
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Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, August 1870. See also M to W. Guilfoyle, 29 September 1870, and notes thereto, and M to W. Guilfoyle, 15 October 1870.
will leave me no leisure for some time. Hence any lecture of mine must be one of the last of the series.
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MS annotation: 'received & acknowledged with thanks. 16th August'; initialed ‘S H B’ [i.e. S. H. Bindon]. See M. Clarke to M, 17 August 1870 (in this edition as 70-07-17a).
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.
Director of the botan Garden
Marcus Clarke Esq
Secretary to the Trustee of the Museum of the public Library.