5/5/89
Allow me to ask, dear Mr Crisp1 whether my annual subscriptions to the Linnean Society are always paid by my Agents at the required time, as I should feel much hurt, if these payments fell ever into arrear. As the finance year of many Science-Societies is not coinciding with the chronologic year, it might easily occur, that the exact time for payment was missed without I—at so great a distance—being aware of it.2 It would have been best, to compound at once for all payments, but I found difficulties in doing this, as my comparatively slender resources are taxed severely and variously in my social and scientific position.3
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-89-05-05,” 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 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-05-05