Melbourne,
14. Nov. 1883.
To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.
Chief Secretary.
Sir
I have the honor to report, that the annex to the bot. Museum is now completed, and that yesterday the 38 cases of the Sonderian Collection were placed there by the Stores- and Transport-Department.1 So soon as the repositories will be ready, for the furnishing of which the public works Department is now making arrangements, I shall be able to commence the unpacking and give then and after the sorting and arranging is completed a fuller account of the contents of this large collection.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller
See M to G. Berry, 20 October 1883 (in this edition as 83-10-20a).
No account by M has been found. Gallagher & Moraes (2014), p. 60, reported that 'less than 15 per cent [of specimens] are mounted and databased. Most of the material is still stored much as it was when it arrived at MEL 130 years ago: in bundles of intricately interleaved paper folders containing loose specimens with loose labels'.
Please cite as “FVM-83-11-14a,” 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