Melbourne
2/6/84.
It was very pleasing to me, dear Mr Maiden, to read the valuable Report on the progress of the Technologic, Industrial and Sanitary Museum of Sydney. I thank you for alluding to myself also on this occasion.2
I have about half a hundred spare woodblocks, representing as many different trees of chiefly Eastern Australia. If your trustees like to acquire this small collection, which originally was intended for foreign interchanges, I can manage to send it to your institution for the mere price of putting the woods into book-shape and polishing and titling them; these preparations cost 6/ each. The woods themselves were got from various parts of Australia and would likely be most new to your Museum, at least in Book form; as the raw material was got mostly as surplus, after our own collection was supplied, no charge would be made for that, though — of course it involved much trouble, to get sound woods correct to name from a distance.
The size of the wood-books is the same as that of the samples, I gave you, when you were here.3
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Please let me have an early answer.
MS is stamped and annotated 'THE TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM | SYDNEY | No. 513 | RECEIVED | JUN 3 1884 | Ansd. 30.0.84'. 'SUBMITTED | JUN 27 1884 | TO THE TRUSTEES'.
See J. Maiden to M, 30 June 1884 (in this edition as 84-06-30a).
Please cite as “FVM-84-06-02,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-06-02