From David Lindsay   31 March 1887

Adelaide

31st March 1887.

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

Melbourne

 

Dear Sir,

I have to thank you most sincerely for your great kindness in proposing me as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England.1 I have just had a communication from the Secretary informing me that I had been elected. I […]2 feel sensible of the great honor thus conferred upon me and again thanking you for the many kindnesses shown to me

I am

Yours very sincerely

David Lindsay F.R.G.S.3

 
1
See M to Royal Geographical Society, 4 January 1887 (in this edition as 87-01-24a), and M to C. Markham, 4 February 1887.
2
word illegible.
3
See also M to D. Lindsay, 2 April 1887 (in this edition as 87-04-02a).

Please cite as “FVM-87-03-31,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-03-31