Botanical Museum
Melb. 23/5/87.
Baron F. Von Mueller K.C.M.G.
Sir,
I have carefully looked over the Notes sent by Mr Tepper,1 and altho they are excellent, it would I fear be next to impossible to have them read at our Club, seeing that our Rules are clear on this point, i.e. that all papers read must be contributed by a member (or Hon. Member) of the Club, & the same rule would apply to the Club's journal. I much regret that Mr Tepper is not already a member.
I have the honor to be Sir
Yours Obediently
Chas French
V.P. elect
F.N.C. 2
That is, the notes sent with O. Tepper to M, 25 April 1874 (letter not found); see M to O. Tepper, 10 April 1887. The 'notes' were probably Tepper's apparently never published paper, 'The Features and Flora of the Ninety Mile Desert', that he read to the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia on 15 March 1887; see Kraehenbuehl (1969), p. 34.
Charles French Snr was Vice-President of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria for the 1887-8 year. M forwarded his letter to Tepper (see M to O. Tepper, 29 May 1887 (in this edition as 87-05-29a)).
Please cite as “FVM-87-05-23,” 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