From Joseph Maiden    7 September 1887

7th Sept: [188]71

Dear Baron Mueller,

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday.2 The £5 I have forwarded to Mr Bauerlen, and I have taken the opportunity of sending him a copy of such portion of your letter as expresses your wishes in regard to his field of operations.3 From a letter written to him already this week (as I informed you in a note which has crossed yours now under reply4), I had reiterated your wish about pushing on to the N. W. so this speedy second one will strongly emphasize the point.

I have been unable, up to the present, to excite any enthusiasm in regard to the trip to Mt Seaview.5 The botanists in Sydney are but few, for zoology is the favourite science, nor is botany encouraged by those who from their position would be expected to do so. But I will again bring the matter before the attention of members of the Linnean Soc: and more particularly and pointedly under the notice of my intimate friends.6

Yours truly,

J. H. Maiden.

 
1
editorial addition.
2
See M to J. Maiden, 6 September 1887 (in this edition as 87-09-06b).
3
Enclosed with J. Maiden to W. Bäuerlen, 8 September 1887 (MRS 4/4/456 outward letters, Archives of Powerhouse Museum, Sydney).
4
Note not found.
5
NSW; see M to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, March 1887 (in this edition as 87-03-00c), and M to J. Maiden, 6 September 1887.
6
The letter-book includes (p. 505) a copy of a letter about Mt Seaview from Maiden to E. Fosbery, Inspector General of Police in Sydney, dated 28 September 1887 seeking basic information about the mountain, ‘how to get to it, and what would be the proper place to approach it from’: ‘it is proposed to form a small private expedition of scientific men to explore it, during the coming summer if possible. … Baron Mueller and my colleagues in the Council of the Linnean Society have deputed me to make these inquiries …'.

Please cite as “FVM-87-09-07a,” 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/87-09-07a