From Ferdinand von Mueller to James Agnew   [Mar 1885]

March 1885

[Letter read from Baron Von Müeller enclosing as a present a lithograph portrait of Labillardiere. The Council being informed by the Curator1 that Govt. were willing to have copies struck off, agreed that 450 be asked for in order that one might be bound in each no. of the Journal for 18852]

Alex Morton.

The lithograph was published as a frontispiece to the Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1885 (1886) with biographical notes by M in the same volume, pp.334-5 (B86.13.02). See also M to J. Agnew, July 1885 (in this edition as 85-07-00).

Letter not found; item is an entry in the minutes of the monthly meeting of the Council of the Society, 31 March 1885.

Please cite as “FVM-85-03-00,” 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/85-03-00