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From Redmond Barry to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 Jan 1870

Public Library

January 12th 1870

My dear Dr Von Mueller,

On my return from Cape Schank1 I found your amiable note. It will give the Trustees of the Public Library pleasure to continue to present copies of your Botanical works as heretofore, if you will be so obliging as to furnish them with numbers as they issue from the Press. About twentyfive of each publication would suffice.

2, May I suggest to you that it would be highly desirable now that the fruit season is at hand to get models made of some of our finest fruits with 1. The true names.

2. Size.

3. Weight.

4. Characteristics.

5. date of ripening, and

6. Any other particulars where grown, by whom whether imported, grafted or budded, or what kind of stock, or seedling, soil aspect &c.

3. You are I suppose like all others in various Departments at present without funds.2 — If you approved of the idea you might ask the Treasurer to imprest one hundred pounds. — The Trustees of the Public Library have done so to meet their urgent wants.

4. If it be not practicable to carry out this object, Photographs of certain fruits might be obtained for a small outlay.3

Believe me to be

My dear Dr

Very faithfully yours

(Signed) Redmond Barry

One of the Trustees of the M. P.4 Library

Dr F. Mueller

Government Botanist

&c &c

Accept from me the compliments of the new year,

1

Cape Schanck, Vic.

2

The Parliament did not approve departmental budgets for 1870 until 31 May 1870 (Victoria. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 1970 session 1, vol. 1, p. 86).

3

The gist of paragraphs one and three are summarized in notes in the margin.

4

Melbourne Public.

Please cite as “FVM-70-01-12,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-01-12