The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: PROSPECTUS OF THE ¶ Electrical Engineering School ¶ COUNCIL: ¶ C. R. Blackett, Esq, J.P., F.C.S., &c. ¶ President of the Pharmacy Board; President of the late Royal Commission on Technological Educati...

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Physical location:

Unit 42, 1-12 November 1895, VPRS 16936/P1, inward correspondence files, VA2389 City of Bendigo, Public Record Office, Victoria. 94.06.00e

Preferred Citation:

Alfred Jackson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1894-06 [94.06.00e]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-06-00e-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

Document is a printed sheet. The item is treated as a communication from Jackson on the assumption that he would have sent a copy of the prospectus, once printed, to each member of the Council, including M. To judge, however, from the location of the copy found, this was not the copy sent to M; Jackson probably sent it to W. Honeybone, Town Clerk of the City of Bendigo, with his letter of 12 November 1895 in which he set out his terms for serving as Analyst to the City, that accompanies it in the file. The item itself is dated to June 1894 since advertisements announcing that the School was "now open" at its premises at 358 Collins Street, Melbourne, began appearing in newspapers in that month (see Argus, 1 June 1894, p. 1).

PROSPECTUS OF THE

Electrical Engineering School

COUNCIL:

C. R. Blackett, Esq, J.P., F.C.S., &c.

President of the Pharmacy Board; President of the late Royal Commission on Technological Education; Government Analyst.

Hon. N. Fitzgerald, M.L.C.

Official Representative of the A. U. Alcock Co. Limited.

Hon. F. S. Grimwade, M.L.C.

Of Messrs. Felton, Grimwade & Co.

W. J. Mountain, Esq., J.P.

Chairman of Directors of the A. U. Alcock Co. Limited.

Baron Sir F. Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S., &c

Government Botanist.

Hon. R. D. Reid, M.L.A.

Member of the Executive Council of Victoria.

Dr. Duncan Turner.

President of the Dental Board.

W Warren, Esq.

Eastern Extension Telegraph Co.

The Convener — who is also the School Principal —

Alfred Henrick Jackson, B.Sc., &c.

Member of the Victoria, the Melbourne, and the London Universities (Honors in Chemistry);

Associate and former Exhibitioner of the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester;

Council Silver Medallist, and School Medallist in every subject, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain;

Member and Pharmaceutical Chemist; Fellow of the Chemical Society of London;

Certficiated Art Teacher, South Kensington, London;

Three Years Director of the College of Pharmacy, Melbourne; and Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica therein.

Three Years Lecturer on Practical Pharmacy to the Medical Students of the Melbourne University;

Five Years Professor of Chemistry and Botany to the Veterinary College;

Five Years Science Lecturer and Sixth Form Master to the Melbourne Grammar School.

BEING ONE DEPARTMENT OF THE MELBOURNE SCIENCE SCHOOL;

FOR DETAILS OF THE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY SEE SEPARATE PROSPECTUS.