To Arthur Morrah   21 September 1886

21/9/86

 

May I ask, honored and dear Sir, that a copy of Mr Skene's new Exploration-map of Australia1 be granted to me, in support of which solicitation I may say, that Mr Skene was supplied by me with Petermann's great chart, when the first large map came out.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.2

1
Continental Australia from the most recent information & materials supplied by the Survey Departments of the several colonies. The first edition appeared in 1879. There were four later editions, issued in 1880, 1886 and 1888. There is a copy of the first edition in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, which may be the copy supplied, but no copy of the 1886 edition he was seeking, which was published in October 1886.
2
For reply see A. Morrah to M, 22 September 1886.

Please cite as “FVM-86-09-21a,” 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 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-09-21a