To the Secretary, Linnean Society of London1    26 June 1880

26/6/80

 

Honored Sir

I have been asked by Mr Otto Tepper to remit to you the secunda2 of a draft of £7 in payment of the entrance fee and his first annual subscription as a F.L.S, having been one of his sponsors at his election3.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

M.D., F.LS.4

Inferred from location and content of letter. The salutation that M uses is very unlike the forms he used in earlier letters to the society's long-serving secretary, Richard Kippist, suggesting that he may have been aware that Kippist's post was being abolished (see Gage & Stearn [1988], p. 77) and that he needed to address the letter to somebody else.
Entrance fees were £6, annual subscription £3 (Gage & Stearn [1988], p. 205). A letter from Tepper to the Secretary of the Linnean Society dated 19 June 1880 (Linnean Society, London, Archives, Guard Books, 1880-85, f 11) enclosed a bill of exchange for £7 and is annotated ‘Secry letters | and Treas. Resp | for £6, admission fee | and £1 [ illegible ] of first | Ann. subs R 14/8/80’. Thus M was sending the next and presumably final instalment of £2.
Tepper was elected on 4 December 1879. For the nomination certificate, see M to the Linnean Society of London, August 1879 (in this edition as 79-08-00).
MS annotation: R 6 / 6 Septr.

Please cite as “FVM-80-06-26a,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-06-26a