To John Macadam   17 December 1858

Dear Dr Macadam

I feel greatly obliged to you, that you went to so much trouble about my paper.1

I am starting to day for the alps2 & hope to be rewarded with sufficient novelty, to furnish a paper for the institute.

Ever your true friend

Ferd. Mueller.

 

17/12/58.

1
Probably B59.13.01: ‘Dr. Mueller exhibited and explained some specimens of New Australian plants’, Proceedings of the meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 26 May 1858, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, vol 3, p. ix(see M to W. Hooker, 17 December 1858).
2
See M to J. O'Shanassy, 12 December 1858.

Please cite as “FVM-58-12-17,” 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/58-12-17