To Thomas Wilson1    7 December 1889

Melbourne, 7. December 1889

Sir

I have the honor to report, that the printing of the "Second Census of Australian Plants",2 for which the Honorable the Chief Secretary kindly granted permission, has now been completed at Messrs. McCarron Bird & Co's establishment, and I beg to forward an impression herewith. I further beg to submit list of those persons and societies, whom I consider, through literary interchanges or other services rendered to the Govt. Botanist's Department, entitled to receive this new publication in the usual official course through the Public Library. But I would consider it a particular kindness, if the Government would allow me a moderate number of copies of this edition (the impression being 1000) for direct use in the Govt. Botanist's office, such number to be fixed as the Government may deem proper,3 especially as the work was printed by a private firm at the expense of my branch of the Service, at a very moderate cost through being without illustrations. For opportunities arise frequently when the work is quickly required in the exigencies and to the advantage of the Service, such copies to be distributed always on behalf of the Government, and a record kept in my office about such distribution, a return of which might quarterly be submitted to the minister of the Department, similar to an arrangement existing in the Govt. Statist's office as regards Mr Hayter's Year Books.4 I may be allowed respectfully to remark, that in cases of urgency I have for several years past purchased out of my private means the various publications of my own at the Govt. Printing Office, to expedite the departmental service on many occasions, the expenditure having amounted to about £50. in each of those years, with no means of reimbursement. The Government might perhaps also, as generously done during the Medical Congress with regard to the "Select Plants",5 grant the favor of placing a certain number of copies of the Second Census of Australian Plants at the disposition of the biological section of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, which is to assemble early in January in our metropolis, wheras such a meeting is not likely to be held here again for many years. The remaining copies might as usual be sent to the Govt. Printing Office for sale.

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your obedient servant

Ferd. von Mueller,

Govt. Botanist

 

T. R. Wilson Esq &c

Under Secretary

 

Proposed distribution of Second Census of Australian Plants.

 

Academy of Science

New York

US.

"

San Francisco

"

"

Chicago

"

" Professor Meehan, Vice President

Philadelphia

"

"

Munich,

Germany

"

Goettingen

"

"

Buda Pest

Austro Hungary

" Leopold. Carol.

Halle a/S.

Germany

"

St Petersburg

Russia

"

Lisbon

Portugal

"

Madrid

Spain

" dei Lincei

Rome

Italy

" Athenaea

Brescia

"

"

Bruxelles

Belgium

"

Liége

"

"

Amsterdam

Netherlands

"

Leyden

"

"

Utrecht

"

"

Stockholm

Sweden

"

Upsala

"

Agricultural Department

Washington US.

Agri-Horticultural Society

Calcutta

Acclimatisation Society

Paris

Cosson, Dr.

Rue de la Boëtie, Paris

Apotheker Verein (Chemical Society)

Vienna

Austria

Baillon, Professor H.

Rue Cuvier Paris

Beccari, Dr. Ed.

Florence

Italy

Bailey, F. M.

Govt. Botanist Brisbane

Botanical Society

Edinburgh

"

London

"

Hamburg,

Germany

"

Copenhagen,

Denmark

"

Goerlitz,

Germany

Caruel, Professor

Florence

Italy

Colonial Institute

London

Davis, Geo. Editor Therapeutic Gazette,

Detroit, Mich.

US.

Director Botanic Garden

Calcutta

Engler, Professor Director Bot. Garden

Berlin

Forrest, Hon. John, CMG

Perth,

West Australia

Geologic Survey Dept.

Washington

US.

Goeze, Dr. E.

Greifswald,

Germany

Henriques, Professor

Coimbra,

Portugal

Heurck, Dr. H. van

Antwerp

Belgium

Holtze, M.,

Govt. Gardens Port Darwin

Horticultural Society, Royal

London

Editor of the "Queenslander"

Brisbane

Linnean Society,

Burlington House London

"

Sydney

Forest Department

Adelaide

Govt. Botanist's Office

Melbourne

Luerssen, Professor

Königsberg,

Germany

Masters, Dr. M. T., Editor Gardeners Chronicle,

London

Moore, Chas. Direct. Bot. Garden

Sydney

Hooker, Sir Joseph. KCSI

Royal Gardens, Kew, London

Kirk, Professor Thos.

Wellington,

N.Z.

Museum of Natural History

Mexico

Naudin, Professor

Antibes (Var)

France

New Zealand Institute

Wellington

Regel, His Excellency Dr. E.

Botanic Garden St. Petersburg

Royal Society

London

" of Canada

Ottawa

"

Sydney

"

Melbourne

"

Adelaide

"

Hobart

"

Brisbane

Royal Irish Academy

Dublin

School of Mines

Ballarat

"

Sandhurst6

Smithsonian Institute

Washington

US.

Society of Natural History

Boston

"

" "

Stuttgart,

Germany

" "

Danzig

"

" "

Bützow

"

Physiographical Society

Lund,

Sweden

Société des sciences physiques & naturelles

Bordeaux

Société Impériale des Naturalistes

Moscow

Société des Amis de l'Histoire Naturelle

Moscow

Society of Natural History

Rockhampton QL.7

Society of Natural History

Bremen,

Germany

Field Naturalists Club

Melbourne

Solms-Laubach, Professor Count,

Strassburg,

Germany

Treub, Dt. Director Bot. Garden,

Buitenzorg,

Java

University of

Cordoba,

Argentina

"

Cairo,

Egypt

"

Melbourne

"

Sydney

"

Adelaide

Wittmack, Professor,

Invaliden Strasse, Berlin

Virchow, Professor,

University Berlin

Woolls, Revd Dr.

Burwood, Sydney

Planchon, Dr.

Montpellier,

France

Fowler, Professor

Kingston,

Canada

Dawson, Sir W.

Ottawa

"

Kerner, Professor

Bot. Garden Vienna, Austria

Heldreich, Professor

Athens, Greece

Fitzgerald, R. D. FLS

Hunter's Hill, Sydney

Editor of the Chemist & Druggist,

Cannon Street, London

Torrey Botanical Club

New York

Society of Natural History,

Braunschweig,

Germany8
 
1
MS written by G. Luehmann and edited and signed by M.
2
B89.13.12.
3
T. Wilson, the Under Secretary, asked M how many copies he wanted, to which M replied, 23 December 1889: 'Could 25 or 50 copies be granted of this inexpensive work at a time, when after such supply being exhausted a return of, how disposed, would be sent in.' This was referred to the Premier's Office where an amount representing the value of the gifts was asked for. When this message reached M via the Chief Secretary's Department he replied, 30 January 1890: 'Fifty pounds Sterling would cover the annual expenditure, which from next year might be defrayed from the ordinary vote.' The next day M added: 'Best thanks for information afforded; will the copies be sent out according to the proposed list, by the public Library.' The information referred to seems to have been given orally, since there is no indication on the file of what it was. The file was returned to the Premier's Office and on 20 March 1890 the Secretary, E. Thomas, ordered 50 copies to be sent to M 'for which an account is to be rendered for payment'.
4
i.e. Victorian yearbook, published annually by the Government Statist, H. Hayter.
5
Intercolonial Medical Congress, Melbourne, January 1889. A copy of M's Select extra-tropical plants (B88.13.02) was presented to each delegate to the Congress by the Victorian Government; see M to T. Wilson, 22 December 1888 (in this edition as 88-12-22a).
6
Now Bendigo, Vic.
7
Qld.
8
The list was approved by the Premier and the books were forwarded by the Public Library by 18 May 1890.

Please cite as “FVM-89-12-07,” 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 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-12-07