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COPY OF LETTER FROM DR. MUELLER TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR 

 H. BARKLY, K.C.B., &C, &C. 



" Royal Society (late tlie Philosophical Institute) of Victoria, 

 " Melbourne, 16th January, 1860. 

 "Sir Henry, 



" I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 Excellency's letter, dated 3rd January, 1860. accompanied by the 

 copy of a despatch of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle to your 

 Excellency, intimating that Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen 

 has been pleased to elevate the Philosophical Institute to the Royal 

 Society of Victoria. 



" Having laid these communications before the Council of the 

 Royal Society of Victoria, I have been desired by my colleagues to 

 express to your Excellency their grateful appreciation of the honor 

 conferred on us by our gracious Sovereign, and to acknowledge also 

 most thankfully the support which we have experienced from your 

 Excellency on this occasion, and to pray that your Excellency will 

 be pleased to convey to the Duke of Newcastle, for the friendly 

 attention shown to us by his Grace, the expression of our deep 

 obligation. 



"Whilst I join in your Excellency's just expectations that the 

 great honor of which the Philosophical Institute has been deemed 

 worthy may augur well for our future exertions, I cannot suppress 

 the hope that the members of the Royal Society of Victoria will ever 

 be mindful of the high position we have attained, and will never fail 

 to justify that confidence evinced towards us in so auspicious a 

 manner. 



" I have the honor to be, 

 " Your Excellency's most humble and obedient servant, 



" Ferd. Mueller. 

 " To His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c, &c, 

 " Patron of the Royal Society of Victoria." 



Dr. Wilkie, as Treasurer of the "Exploration Committee," intimated 

 that he had placed the funds contributed by public subscription 

 towards the exploration of the interior, to the credit of the " Ex- 

 ploration Committee of the Royal Society." He then proposed 

 Clement Hodgkinson, Esq., C.E., and James Smith, Esq., as members 

 of the Committee. 



This was seconded by Dr. Iffla, and carried. 



The Hon. Dr. Wilkie, M.L.C., moved that a vote of thanks be 

 awarded to the " Exploration Fund Committee " for their valuable 

 labors. 



This was seconded by F. Acheson, Esq., C.E., and carried unan- 

 imously. 



Dr. Macadam moved, " That the Society should instruct a depu- 

 tation, consisting of Drs. Mueller, Wilkie, Ifna, and Macadam, and 



