MEMORANDUM 



THE LATE BARON SIR FERDINAND VON 

 MUELLER, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., Etc. 



Grovernment ISotnui&t of Victoria. 



Scientists throughout the world, but more especially the 

 deceased's numerous personal friends, will be pleased to 

 hear that his executors (Rev. W. Poiter, Dr. Alex. Buttner 

 and H. Buttner, Esq.) are — in compliance with the 

 Baron's dying wish — now collecting donations for the 

 erecting upon his grave in the St. Kilda cemetery, Mel- 

 bourne, of a monument worthy of the deceased savant's 

 famé. The monument is of grey granité, 23ft. in height, all 

 highly polished, and will stand in the centre of a grave- 

 plot 12ft. square, planted out with choiee spécimens of the 

 Australian flora, with which the Baron's name has become 

 imperishably linked. They also will be glad to know that 

 the illustrious phytologist's supplemental volume of the 

 Flora Âust) aliénas, upon which he had worked for years, 

 and was preparing for the Press at the time of his death, 

 is to be published, together with two volumes on his admi- 

 nistration as director of the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, 

 and embracing a biography and complète bibliograph of 

 his writings. The executors will feel favoured by the loan 

 of any of his letters, or the communication of incidents in 

 the Baron's life which friends may deem worthy of notice 

 in the biography. Donations and letters should be addres- 

 sed- « Rev. W. Potter (Vonmueller), Arnoldstreet, South 

 Yarra, Melbourne, Australia. » 



