Gentlemen— I will be very happy to furnish a contribution for your excellent publication, but it must stand over for some weeks as all my spare time will be taken up with work for the London Exhibition,2 and for the Royal Commission on Vegetable Industries.3 I will call at your atelier some day.
Regardfully yours
FRED.4 VON MUELLER
11/11/85.
Letter not found. The text given here is from an advertisement for the Picturesque atlas of Australasia (Garran, 1886) in Australasian (Melbourne), 25 September 1886, p. 620, one of a series of similar statements. The advertisement was repeated in other newspapers. M contributed an essay on 'Flora of Australasia' (B86.13.12). M's letter is introduced by 'From Baron Von Mueller, the Eminent Australian Botanist.'
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.
Victoria, Royal Commission on Vegetable Products, 1886.
Printers error for Ferd.?
Please cite as “FVM-85-11-11,” 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