Melbourne bot. Garden,
11/5/70.
Would you be so very kind, dear Mr M'Pherson, to give me an opportunity to attend at the next meeting of the trustees of the industrial Museum, in order that I may explain my views in reference to the phytological collections to be formed and arranged as a section of the Museum, and that some professional control may be allowed to me in reference to this section. As I am not a trustee nor an officer of the public Library, I should gladly arrange some plan of working with the trustees, and thus prevent sinking to a position below the dignity, which I departmentally and scientifically occupy, a dignity which I trust will be recognized.1
I am, dear Mr M'Pherson,
your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller.
On 14 May 1870, MacPherson minuted: 'Will the Chairman of the Committee be good enough to bring the request of Dr Mueller before the Committee at its next sitting'.
Please cite as “FVM-70-05-11d,” 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