Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS is a printed circular which, together with various other documents relating to the founding of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, has been inserted at the front of the Branch's first minute book.

Geographical Society of Australasia.

95 Collins St. West,

Melbourne, 8th August, 1883.

Sir —

At a recent Meeting of the Administrative Council of the above Society, held in Sydney, the Hon. Secretary (Mr E. M. La Meslee) suggested that the Society's supporters in this and the adjoining colonies should be invited to form associated bodies under the Society's Constitution.

That suggestion having been unanimously adopted, Mr La Meslee has asked me (amongst others) to assist in such a movement here.

As some one must take the initiative, and the matter seems to come fairly within the scope of my pursuits, I take the liberty to invite your attendance at a preliminary meeting of gentlemen favourable to Geographical Science in Australasia, to be held at the Exchange, Collins St. West, Melbourne, on Monday, the 13th inst., at 4.30 p.m.

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MS annotation: ' Note a copy of this circular was posted to the Gentlemen whose names are hereinafter written'. M's name is included in the accompanying list of 145 names. For M's reply, see M to A. Macdonald, 9 August 1883 (in this edition as 83-08-09a). See also M to A. Macdonald, 20 September 1883 (in this edition as 83-09-20a).