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Physical location:

Letter-press book 1881-2, no. 449, Museum, School of Mines and Industries Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria. 81.02.21

Preferred Citation:

William Barnard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-02-21. 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/1880-9/1881/81-02-21-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

21 February 1881
My dear Baron von Müeller
I beg you to accept my best thanks for your very kind note of the 18th
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M's letter was registered at the School on 21 February (Register of letters inwards, Museum, School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, Victoria), its contents summarized as 'Consent to examine in botany'.
undertaking to examine in General Botany. At the next Council Meeting I will have the pleasure of (formally) submitting your name,
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Council agreed to M's appointment as examiner in botany at its quarterly meeting on 14 April 1881 (Minute book).
meantime with your sanction so promptly given will insert your name in the Report now being printed
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M was accordingly listed as the examiner in botany in the School's Annual Report for 1881 (School of Mines, Ballaarat (1882), p. 7), as he had been in the School's Annual Report for the previous year (School of Mines, Ballaarat (1881), p. 7).
— you have rightly supposed that your presence at Ballaarat
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Now spelled Ballarat, Vic.
will not be required at the Examination: there is a small Fee, however, for setting and examining Papers
When next at Ballaarat pray favor me with a call — you will I am sure be pleased with The School
faithfully yours
W. H. Barnard
Baron Müller C.M.G., M. et Ph.D., F.R.S.
&c &c &c
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