To James Kirkland1    October 1881

 

[A letter was received from Baron von Mueller regretting that he was unable to comply with the request of the Society in re making a donation of his works for the Library:2 and suggesting the advisability of the Society applying to the Hon J. M. Grant — Chief Secretary as the most likely source of getting the supply. He however expressed his pleasure in being able to forward two works issued by him as a private speculation. The books were "Index Perfectus Ad. Caroli Linnæi Species Plantarum." and "The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances."3]

1
Letter not found. Kirkland was honorary secretary of the Victorian Horticultural Improvement Society. This letter was minuted at the committee meeting held on 6 October 1881.
2
The Secretary of the Society had been 'directed to apply to Dr Mueller Government Botanist for the balance of his works' at the meeting of the Committee held on 8 September 1881.
3
B80.04.05 and Wittstein (1878). Kirkland was instructed to forward the Committee's thanks to M, and also to apply to the Chief Secretary as suggested. The Committee resolved to elect M an honorary member of the Society. The minutes of the committee meeting held on 3 November 1881 recorded that the Chief Secretary had sent the Society M's Fragmenta, volumes 6-10, Botanic teachings[B77.13.07], Select plants[B76.13.03] and Eucalyptographia, decades 1-7 [B79.13.11, B80.13.14].

Please cite as “FVM-81-10-00a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-10-00a