6./12./65.
Dear Sir Redmond,
I am anxious to prepare some articles for the Colonial Exhibition1 by chemical means from vegetable material and require for this purpose very much to consult the two volumes of Muspratts Chemistry.2 May my assistant, Mr Heyne, be permitted to bring the books to me and would you kindly allow me to use them for a few days at my private home? Mr Heyne will give a receipt for the loan of the books on my behalf
Very regardfully
yr
Ferd Mueller
Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.
Muspratt (1860). The Public Library had added an edition of Muspratt’s Chemistry between the publication of its catalogue in 1861 and its supplementary catalogue in 1865. It was recoded as 'n.d.', but an edition was being advertised in the British press in 1860, the date used by the British Library.
Please cite as “FVM-65-12-06,” 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