6/9/87.
Allow me, dear Mr Maiden, to send to you the money-order of £5, as a subsidy for Mr Baeuerlen during August.2 As you have anyhow to send him funds from time to time, my addition to his travelling-resources might as well or better go with yours; indeed you are in a better position to forward to him at the earliest time and to the best adress, than myself. I did send him in due time the July subsidy of £5 in a money order to Wilcannia,3 trusting that he will get it cashed further N. W.
His success so far as the phytography of N.S.W. is concerned depend on two points.
1, that he mainly and timely operates in the remotest N.W. corner of N.S.W., as repeatedly pointed out to him at the outset.
2, that he collects also all aquatic plants and particularly also all minute annuals, even if shrivelled up. Among these will be most novelty for N.S.W. and indeed for general science also.
I still hope, that you and your friends get the path to the summit of Mt Seaview4 out timely
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
B. ought to operate mainly in the Poole district beyond Milparinka.5
MS is stamped and annotated: 'THE TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM SYDNEY No. 277 RECEIVED SEP 7 1887 Ansd. 8/9' and 'SUBMITTED SEP 14 1887 TO THE TRUSTEES'. See J. Maiden to M, 8 September 1884.
See also M to J. Maiden, 7 September 1887 (in this edition as 87-09-07a).
NSW.
NSW; see M to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, March 1887 (in this edition as 87-03-00c).
NSW. B. … Milparinka is written on the back of the envelope. On the front of the envelope is: 'On Her Majesty's Service. J. H. Maiden Esqr FRGS. Curator of the technologic Museun, Sydney Government Botanist, Melbourne, 6/9/1887.'
Please cite as “FVM-87-09-06b,” 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