From Sidney Johnson1    16 October 1882

Meredith2

S. School3 No 1420

Octr 16th 1882

Baron F. Von Mueller —

 

Sir,

If, at your leisure you can send me the name of the accompanying flowers I shall be greatly obliged. As I get the names, I give object lessons on them in the school, as the bulk of the specimens are easily obtainable by the school-children. They take great pleasure in it.

I was unable to get the volume of your F. Australiensis4 in Geelong. At least only one Volume of the Descriptive portion & unfortunately that did not contain any of the plants the names of which you have so kindly furnished me with. I shall try Ballarat next time.

With the hope that I am not proving a nuisance to you

I have the honour to be

Sir

Your obedient servant

Sidney Johnson

1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 16/10/82'. Letter not found.
2
Vic.
3
i.e. State School = a primary school established by the government.
4
Bentham (1863-78)?

Please cite as “FVM-82-10-16,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-10-16