Melbourne,
bot Garden,
24/9/70
I should be very glad, dear Mr Newberry, if you would ask the Commissioners of the industrial Museum, to allow me to move to my Laboratory all the articles of vegetable-nature now in the Museum and yet requiring cleaning or renewed labeling, as I can see to that with far more convenience and facility at my own place. This measure will save me any loss of time in going to and fro, and I would send the cart of my Department to fetch the things and bring them back again when ready. I allude to all the dirty fibres, the crude barks, the miscellaneous lot of articles from Java, Queensland &c &c on the open stages and to sundry substances in glass-cases. If this cannot readily be conceded, I must have under any circumstances a workroom in the Museum-annex for my exclusive and undisturbed use; but it will take far more time to put the things in order at the Museum than in my laboratory. The articles as they are now are quite unfit for any museum.1
Your regardful
Ferd von Mueller
MS annotation: 'Refer to Committee J.C.N'.
Please cite as “FVM-70-09-24,” 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