From David Lindsay   22 January 1887

Adelaide

22nd Jany 1887

Baron F. Von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c &c.

Melbourne

 

Dear Sir,

As I am preparing a statement of expenses connected with the botanical collection for the S.A. branch of the R.G.S.A. I am desirous of knowing your intentions in regard to the amount promised me by you. Will you very kindly reply at your earliest convenience

Hoping you are well

I am

Yours very faithfully

David Lindsay

Surveyor & Explorer1

1
In "Report of an Exploring Expedition across Australia by David Lindsay" (pp. 165-6) Lindsay wrote: 'From Dalhousie [SA] a collection of plants were sent to the Honorable The Minister For Education to be forwarded to Baron Von Mueller for classification. In this collection as well as in all others subsequently transmitted there were, as far as possible, three specimens of each plant so that one complete set could be kept by the Baron, and one by the Geographical Society leaving another for Lieutenant Dittrich and myself to dispose of as we might consider fit.' [ML MSS.200/1, item 2, (1887-90)].

Please cite as “FVM-87-01-22,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-01-22