[A largely-attended meeting of the Field Naturalists' Society was held at the School of Arts on Monday evening.1 The exhibits were numerous and of a very interesting character. The president (Mr. Maiden) read a letter from Baron F. von Mueller, congratulating the society upon its success and inviting the attention of the members to the collection of fungi and other cryptogamic plants.]
20 October 1890.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Field Naturalists' Society', Daily telegraph (Sydney), 24 October 1890, p. 3. The article continues by listing the exhibits by members. The previous meeting had been held on 15 September; the letter is dated to October as the latest that it could have been sent to have been read at the meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-90-10-00n,” 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