11/1/66
This day, dear Mr Beveridge, I received your kind note of the 9. January,1 together with the paper in which our poor late Lady-friend so masterly described her Murray Excursion.2 I had no idea, of this Lady possessing such genuine genius & I will send this beautiful article to Sir Charl. Nicholson, that the ethnological Society may take notice of it.
It is very generous of you to send me the Lowans.3 You are really overkind. The gums & resins will also be most acceptable & shall be exhibited in your name, together with the fibres.4
We do not intend to abandon the Leichhardt search,5 if we can avoid it
ever your attached
Ferd Mueller
Letter not found.
Not identified. No article corresponding to M's description was published in the Transactions of the Ethnological Society in the period 1866-69.
i.e. Mallee fowl. The report of the meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria held on 6 February 1886 includes 'The council beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of three mallee hens from Mr. Peter Beveridge, of Swan hill'(Argus, 7 February 1886, p. 6).
Probably offers of specimens of natural products for the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, 1866-7, for which M was one of the Commissioners. Beveridge exhibited many items including gum, resin and fibre; see Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia (1867), Catalogue, pp. 16-17.
The Ladies' Leichhardt Search Expedition. The expedition had been beset with difficulties caused by drought; see M to 'a friend in Sydney', September 1865 (in this edition as 65-09-00a) (B65.09.03).
Please cite as “FVM-66-01-11,” 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