From William Fisher1    22 December 1883

Dehra Dun,2

22nd December, 1883

My dear Sir,

Dr Schlich has written to me about an exchange of the 'Indian Forester' for your Eucalyptography & other papers from Australia. Of course it will be very greatly to the advantage of the Indian Forester & I need not say that I shall be very much obliged to you & very glad to get an occasional paper on Australian Forestry. I have therefore directed the Publishers to send you the Indian Forester in future regularly, & will also send you as many back nos as I have in hand.

Owing to the large increase in the circulation of the I. F. consequent on its becoming a monthly, instead of a quarterly periodical, I am afraid that I have not a complete set of Vol IX available, but I will send you what I can.3

In India we have so much executive work to do, that litterary composition is only possible in spare moments, so that you will find the Forester merely a collection of practical suggestions from men who have hastily written down their impressions during the few hours they can spare from their work. I was very sorry to hear that Forestry in America has sustained a great check in the collapse of the American Journal of Forestry for want of support, & in the resignation of Dr Hough, the head of the Dept.

I hope that it will take up firmer ground in Australia

Yours truly

W. R. Fisher

Editor I. Forester

 

To The Baron von Müller

&c &c

Victoria

1
See also M to G. Berry, 8 February 1884, with which this letter is filed. In due course the Premier, J. Service, approved the exchange proposed.
2
India.
3
Vol. IX was the volume of the current year, 1883. The set of the journal at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, lacks nos 6-8 of this volume.

Please cite as “FVM-83-12-22,” 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/83-12-22