Melbourne,
17. Dec. 1887.
Mons. P. Maistre,
Acting Consul General of France
In reply to your communication of the 12. Dec.,1 honored Sir, I beg to state, that I will endeavour to obtain yet this season the grains of the two Anthistiria and of other nutritious grasses and also salt-bushes and other rural plants, fit for the more arid pastoral regions of Northern Africa. It will be necessary to have these seeds collected purposely, and I have made some arrangements now in this respect, without involving the Consulate into expenditure. When any of the grains arrive, they will be successively sent to you.
I beg of you, to assure his Excellency the Minister of foreign affaires, that I will be particularly happy to aid on this and any other occasion in the rural development of the great French possessions in Africa, so far as I can from here, and that I hope his Excellency will in this respect through you, his able representative here, at any time command services.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your very obedient
Ferd. von Mueller
Anthistiria
Please cite as “FVM-87-12-17a,” 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