Ferdinand von Mueller

1

Letter not found. The text given here (B88.10.02) is included in a report of the meeting of the Victorian Engineers' Association held on 10 October 1888, in The Victorian engineer, vol. 3, no. 4, 15 October 1888, p.6.

4/10/88.

It is very pleasing to me dear Mr. Sherrard, that the Victorian Engineers' Association will give its powerful support to the Australasian Association for the advancement of science at the Melbourne meeting,

2

M's letter appears immediately following a report by the Association's delegates to the first congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Sydney in September 1888. In their report, the delegates noted, among other things, that M had been designated as President of the second congress, which was to be held in Melbourne.

and I beg to add that for the formation of the local Council arrangements will preliminarily be made next week, when the Melbourne delegates who went to Sydney will come together for the first time, and when your letter will be placed at once before them.