To [the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society]1    24 July 1890

24/7/90

 

Allow me, honored Sir, to submit a letter2 from Mr J. P. Thomson, Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Secretary of the Queensland-branch of the R.G.S.A., who likes to be exempted from the monetary obligations, which the fellowship of the R.G.S. entails.3

Would you kindly give me your opinion, whether the rule, to which he refers, would apply to his case.

Will you kindly also get the additional support there for the Candidature of Mr Milray?4

Regardfully

your

Ferd von Mueller

1

D. W. Freshfield and H. Seebohm were joint secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society at this date. The letter could also have been addressed to S. J. Evis, the Chief Clerk.

Annotated: Ans Oct 3 (letter not found).

2
Letter not found.
3
James Park Thomson was not a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, but was FRGS Scotland.
4
See nomination certificate for Milray, July 1890 (in this edition as 90-07-00b).

Please cite as “FVM-90-07-24a,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/90-07-24a