To Frederick Standish   26 September 1859

Melbourne bot. & zool Garden

26. Sept. 1859.

My dear Capt. Standish.

I trust you will pardon me, when in my anxious desire to carry on the botanical survey of Australia, I venture to ask, whether it would be possible to supply an officer of my department for two or three weeks with a police-horse at Pleasant Creek,1 for the purpose of enabling him to collect at this season the native plants in the neighbourhood of Lake Hindmarsh for my work on the indigenous vegetation.

It would be too expensive both in money & time to furnish him with a horse here, so that I intend, if you could grant him the favor I seek for, to send Mr Dallachy by the mail cart to Pleasant Creek.

Most regardfully

yours

Ferd. Mueller

 

Capt. Standish,

Chief Commissioner of police

&c &c &c

1
Now Stawell, Vic.

Please cite as “FVM-59-09-26,” 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/59-09-26