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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Dudley Best   19 Jan 1884

19/1/84

Herewith, dear Mr Best, a cheque of £1.6/- of which sum £1 is intended for four tickets of Mr Kershaw's collections1 and 6/ as first years payment for the "Naturalist".2

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

1

David Kershaw, who had died on 8 September 1883 (Argus, 19 September 1883, p. 1), and whose 'Cabinet Collection of Australian Beetles' was exhibited at the Conversazione of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria on 30 April 1884 (Victorian naturalist, vol. 1 (1884), p. 35).

2

i.e. Victorian naturalist, the journal of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria of which Best was Secretary.

Please cite as “FVM-84-01-19,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-01-19