To Augustus Gregory1    13 June 1857

13. June 57.

My dear Mr Gregory.

I beg to forward the duplicate of my official answer to your kind letter. My duplicate of the bot. report will have arrived.2 Major Christie brings you the book of Bunce on Leichhardts second journey. It is but a poor affair, and wrong to insult the dead man, even if he acted quite as stated.3

With this mail after to morrow more bot. manuscripts of N. A. Exp. is going to Sir W. Hooker. I got just the new work of de Vriese on Goodeniaceae4 and worked now the corresponding notes up. I find we discovered about a dozen new Goodenias & Scaevolas.

Hookers letters &c, kindfully transmitted by you I received.

Ever with the greatest attachment I remain

your servant

Ferd. Mueller.

 

I had an pleasant opportunity of acknowledging publicly on Wednesday the services which you rendered to Geography at a festival prepared by the German Union in order to introduce me as their first hon. member.5

Maj. Christie brings also books shells and insects for Dr Bennett. The shells are found by myself at Wilson promont. He takes also books to the rev. Mr Clarke. Is there no chance of a getting [any]6 more of your charts?7

 

Goodeniaceae

Goodenia

Scaevola

1

MS envelope front: 'On her Majesty's service. | A. C. Gregory Esq. &c &c &c | Commander of the North Australian Expedition | 66. Macquarie Street | Sydney. | Ferd. Mueller'. Front post-marked Melbourne 13 July 1857, and Sydney 18 July 1857. Front bears a sixpenny Victoria postage stamp.

See also A. Gregory to M, 13 June 1857.

2
Gregory forwarded the extra copy of M's report to the Colonial Secretary's Department on 2 July 1857 (No. 67/57, MS Q430 outward letter copy book, p. 57, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney).
3
Bunce (1857). See M to A. Gregory, 6 June 1857.
4
Vriese (1854).
5
See Deutscher Verein of Victoria to M, 11 June 1857.
6
editorial addition— word covered by wax in MS.
7
Three charts showing the route of the North Australian Exploring Expedition, certified by Gregory and lithographed by Allan & Wigley in Sydney in early 1857, have been identified: N. W. Australia shewing the route of the North Australian Expedition September 1855 to May 1856 ; N. W. Australia shewing the route of the North Australian Expedition, June to August 1856 ; and N. E. Australia shewing the route of the North Australian Expedition, September to November 1856 . These cover respectively the journey from Point Pearce near the mouth of the Victoria River to what Gregory called Termination Lake (now Lake Gregory, WA); from the Victoria River to the Gulf of Carpentaria; and from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Port Curtis. The only known copy of the first map is at The National Archive, London: MFQ 1/259: 1 item extracted from CO 201/498 [New South Wales Original Correspondence. Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State. Despatches, 01 Jan 1857 -31 May 1857]. The State Library of NSW holds copies of the other items.

Please cite as “FVM-57-06-13a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-06-13a