11/6/90.
As I have spent so much money in incidental expenses and otherwise, dear Mr Macdonald, for the Society, would you spare me a few copies of the last and the new publication of the Society? I can send for them. It would help on my litterary interchanges.
Regardfully always your
Ferd. von Mueller
Kindly remember me to the venerable Captain.1
I am sorry that Mr Lindsay does not express himself more enthusiastic about the Leichhardt-Search. I am only anxious about the welfare of our branch. Kindly tell Mr Scarr and Mr Panton,2 that I had no pronounced opinion about Mr Lindts wish from the commencement but liked to show him every courtesy. Still it was not much he asked, and perhaps he would accept ½
The very fact, that Sir Will Macgregor3 adds discoveries to discoveries, shows the undesirability of4 our withdrawing from New Guinea[n] work, which will make far more show than any now left to be done in Central Australia.
Captain Crawford Pasco? The two paragraphs that follow are on separate pages and may be part of a separate letter (or letters).
Joseph Panton was at this time Vice-President of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, and Frank Scarr was a member of the Council.
i.e., MacGregor.
aiding deleted after of.
Please cite as “FVM-90-06-11,” 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