From Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Tulk   5 May 1872

Melbourne bot. Garden

5/5/72

By this mail, dear Mr Tulk, I got the enclosed letter,1 offering a copy of Martius great Work on Brazilian plants2 at reduced price. Perhaps you will be so friendly to submit the proposition to the trustees of the public Library.3

your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

See R. Jaeger to M, 2 March 1872.

C. Martius (1840-1906); the first 50 fascicles, i.e., until 1870, were being offered.

MS annotation dated 5 September 1872: 'the present demands on the funds of the Library will not admit of the purchase of this work — when the question can be entertained the Trustees will have to consider in what respect the copy offered to the Baron for £57 be superior to that mentioned in Brunet as attainable colored for £40'.

Please cite as “FVM-72-05-05a,” 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/72-05-05a