[References in the proceedings of our Royal Society to the altitude of some Tasmanian forest giants,1 appear to have attracted the attention of the learned Government botanist of Victoria, Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D. Ph.D., F.R.S., for the latter has written to the Minister of Lands, begging him to instruct some of the officials in his department to obtain an accurate measurement of the tallest trees growing on the south end of Mount Barrow.2 The baron’s object is to possess reliable data on this subject, to be presented to the biological section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, whose next meeting will be held in Melbourne during January, 1890.3]
Letters by S. B. Emmett and by C. B. Barkley on the subject were read at the meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania on 9 July 1889. See Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1889 (1890), pp. xviii-xiv. See also M to A. Morton, August 1889 (in this edition as 89-08-00).
Near Launceston, Tas.
The second congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Melbourne, 7-14 January 1890, with M as President. M did not present a paper to 'the biological section' (Section D), and he did not refer to the height of eucalyptus trees in his presidential address to the congress,
Letter not found. For the text given here, see Launceston examiner, 12 August 1889, p. 3. The item appears in a column headed 'Tasmanian News (from our own correspondents)' and is dated 'Hobart, August 10'.
Please cite as “FVM-89-08-00c,” 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