3.3.81
My dear Baron Müeller,
I enclose plans asked [for]1 and beg to return many [thank]s for the circular from F. W. Breithaupt & Sohn,2 with whom I shall take an early opportunity of communicating on the subject of the instruments in question.
I hope your conjectures respecting Skuthorpe3 may be realized. —
Believe me
Very sincerely yours
G. W. Goyder
Surveyor General S.A.
It is not known what plans and other documents were requested and supplied. M to G. Goyder, 12 April 1881 (in this edition as 81-04-12b) acknowledges receipt.
A long-established firm in Kassel supplying precision measuring instruments, especially optical instruments for surveying.
M was seeking support for a search for the remains of August Classen, a member of the lost Leichhardt expedition, after J. R. Skuthorpe claimed he had recovered the diaries of Leichhardt and Classen and the grave of Classen; see M to G. Berry, 12 December 1880. For an account of the Skuthorpe claims and aftermath, see Lewis (2013), pp. 265-80. See also M to E. Behm, 12 April 1881, and notes thereto.
Please cite as “FVM-81-03-03,” 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