September 27th [186]51
Sir
I have the honor by direction of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society to convey to you their best thanks for the presentation of valuable books on pisciculture and to inform you that in accordance with your suggestion Mr Coste has been elected an Hony Member of the Society, this fact will be conveyed to him by the next mail.2
I am further directed by the Council to enquire if you could kindly furnish the Society a few each of the two kinds mentioned in the enclosed letter?3
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedt Servant
Geo Sprigg
Secy
To Dr Mueller F.R.S.
&c &c &c
The Council desire also to thank you for taking charge of the [jalap] from Queensland.4
editorial addition.
See M to the Council of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, September 1865 (in this edition as 65-09-00b).
Letter not found.
The Queensland Acclimatisation Society had sent M, for the Melbourne Botanic Garden, roots of jalap, and a separate letter had evidently been sent to the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria informing them of this.
See B72.13.02, p. 313, under Ipomoea purga, the 'true Jalop', and I. simulaus (i.e. simulans); the roots and seeds received by the Queensland Society and shared with M were those from Mexico, 'the true Jalop' (Brisbane courier, 25 July 1865, p. 3). In a letter to L. Bernays dated 28 September 1865, Sprigg thanked him for the roots of jalap from the Queensland Acclimatisation Society and reported they were doing well in M's care.
M to L Bernays,18 September 1865, is M's personal acknowledgement 'on behalf of the Acclimatisation Society'.
Please cite as “FVM-65-09-27,” 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