Melbourne
13/5/70
This morning, dear Mr Tulk, I intend to commence some preliminaries in reference to arranging the collections of vegetable substances for the technological Museum.1 At about 4 o'clock I will come in myself, and meet Mr Hoffmann there in the main hall or annex and I should be obliged, if you would give Mr Hoffmann access in the meanwhile, in order that he may commence an inventory with a view of scientific labelling &c. I shall not stay until dusk but I hope that the byefollowing letter from the Chairman of the Industrial Section of the Trustees2 will be sufficient authority to give Mr Hoffmann & myself access to the building at least during day hours. But I should like to know, whether in these long evenings I could be allowed also access to the building with the object of working on the collections. Pray let me say, that this task, however gladly I will perform it, as far as I can among other duties, is not one of my own seeking. Pray tell Mr Hoffmann, where the skilled work man, to whom the hon. Sam Bindon alludes, can be found
your very regardful
Ferd. von Mueller
Please cite as “FVM-70-05-13a,” 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