Geographical Society of
AUSTRALASIA.
INSTITUTED 1883
NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH.
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Montefiore Joseph Co
4 O'Connell St. Sydney.
Sydney 26 April 1888
My dear Baron von Mueller,
I was indeed pleased to receive this morning your valued letter1 written as you alone know how to write. I look forward with interest to your Presidential address. It is unfortunate that you should be unduly overwhelmed with work but I suppose such is the invariable penalty attaching under our modern civilization to pre-eminence in any line of life; and especially so in the case of an almost unique specialist scientist like yourself.
To myself as you know a life of activity rather than one permitting profound research has been allotted; and should I have opportunities for further geographical exploitation I trust to be able to make better and less economical arrangements, and have some collector with me who may bring grist to your mill.
By the by I sent copy of pamphlet2 to your correspondent Herr Wichmann Co-Editor Petermann's Mittheilungen Gotha3 who wrote me a nice letter some few months ago; and spoke of hearing of my work through your good self
yours sincerely
Theodore Bevan
Letter not found.
Bevan (1888) a 'preliminary presentation pamphlet', 'limited to 100 copies' contains numerous extracts from the press and other supportive statements.
i.e. Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen.
Newspaper clippings attached to the MS express the Society's appreciation of Bevan's significant explorations in New Guinea, and that of others (Sydney morning herald, 21 April 1888, p. 10; Daily telegraph, 21 April 1888, p. 9; and Daily telegraph, 26 April 1888, p. 5).
Please cite as “FVM-88-04-26,” 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