Melbourne,
29 Dec. 1890
T. R. Wilson Esqr
Under-Secretary
Sir
Having received kind permission from the hon. the Chief Secretary, to proceed to New Zealand for attending the meeting of the Austr. Assoc. for Adv. of Science,1 I have the honor to inform you, that I have arranged, to leave to morrow, and that I shall return before the end of January.2 After all Departmental work has been finished off for December, I have instructed Mr Luehmann, to wait on you for instruction or authority, to sign any Documents or to act for me in any other but the routine office-work, should the occasion arise. In any special cases, which might require my own professional attention during January, I could act on telegrams, sent to Christchurch in New Zealand.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist.
Please cite as “FVM-90-12-29,” 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