26/6/86
The mail occupies me just much, dear Consul Litton,1 and on Tuesday I have to prepare for the great meeting of the geographic Society;2 then I will write the notes for the first volume of the geol Soc.;3 but as said before — it is impossible for me, to hold any responsible position for that Society, my time not admitting of attending to its business, as you will see from the delay, which arose, in even furnishing the promised brief notes. So I must adhere to my resolution of relinquishing my position on the Council and the highly honorable post of Vice-President.4
With my best wishes for the welfare of the Society your
Ferd.von Mueller
I received from the Mines Department a copy of the Quaterly Report5
Litton was appointed Consul-General for Liberia 'for Australasia and the Islands adjacent thereto' in September 1885 (Victoria, Government gazette, 4 September 1885, p. 2511).
M presided at a meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia on the evening of Tuesday 29 June 1886, where 'Sir Henry [Governor] and Lady Loch and suite' were in attendance (Age (Melbourne), 30 June 1886, p. 7).
No such notes were ever published.
See M to R. Litton, 10 June 1886 (in this edition as 86-06-10b).
Quarterly? The gold-fields of Victoria: Reports of the mining registrars for the quarter ended 31st March 1886 (?) (Melbourne, Government Printer), containing Lendenfeld (1886b), an account of the journey of Lendenfeld and Stirling; see M to [R. Litton], January 1886 (in this edition as 86-01-00b).
Please cite as “FVM-86-06-26a,” 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