13 May 18851
| TELEGRAM from MELBOURNE Station, | Addressed to Edw Pulsford Secy Geographic Socy Sy.2 |
Suggest appoint Froggatt second Zoologist. Hardy Constitution ample work for two Haarke3 probably will fit unknown to me personally am looking out for Surgeon & Geologist merely recommendation4
(signed) Baron von Mueller
Telegraph Office date stamp.
Sydney.
Telegraphist's error for Haacke, i.e. Wilhelm Haacke?
Staff for the 1885 New Guinea expedition being organized by the New South Wales Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia. See M to E. Pulsford, 15 May 1885 (in this edition as 85-05-15c).
For a summary of the above telegram see ML MSS.853/2 letter register, no. 521, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch), Mitchell Library.
Please cite as “FVM-85-05-13,” 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