23/1/93
Besten Dank, lieber Krichauff, dass Du es mit Mr Molineux, der mir geschrieben hat, einrichten konntest, Algen grob getrocknet zu bekommen. Du bist schon so überhäuft mit Arbeit, dass ich Dich gar nicht hätte plagen sollen; es geschah um nicht Andere gleich darauf hinzulocken, Rival-Sammlungen zu machen.
Hierbei einige seltnere austral Postmarken; mehr können nachfolgen.
Immer Dein
Ferd. von Mueller
Besten Dank für die regelmässige Zusendung des Journals Deines Bureau. Hättest Du weiter nichts für S. A. gethan, als diese Organisation zu schaffen, so wärst Du ein bleibender Wohltäter der Colonie, die Dich in dankbarem Andenken bewahren wird.
23/1/93
Best thanks, dear Krichauff, that you were able to arrange with Mr Molineux, who has written to me,1 to obtain rough-dried algae. You are already so overwhelmed with work that I should not have pestered you at all. I only did it so others would not immediately be tempted to make rival collections.2
Herewith a few rarer Austral. postage stamps;3 more can follow.
Always your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Best thanks for the regular sendings of the journal of your Bureau.4 If you had done nothing else for South Australia than to create this organization, you would be a lasting benefactor of the colony, which would keep you in grateful remembrance.
Letter not found. Albert Molineux was Secretary of the Central Bureau of Agriculture of South Australia. See also M to the Central Bureau of Agriculture, March 1893 (in this edition as 93-03-00d).
M made the request in M to F. Krichauff, 5 January 1893.
i.e. stamps issued by the various Australian (or Australasian?) colonies.
Krichauff, with S. Davenport and A. Molineux, had been appointed to the Central Bureau of Agriculture in 1888.
Please cite as “FVM-93-01-23,” 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