27. 11. [189]31
Dear Baron von Mueller,
I laid your letter of the 3rd. inst.2 before Mr Gregory & I ventured to read it at one of the meetings of the local committee of the Australasian Association,3 but unfortunately it was not received by the latter in the same noble & generous feeling in which was written. Mr B. 4 I find is a very strange man to deal with; he thinks those who try to help him are doing so from unfriendly motives & consequently it is difficult to approach him in any way. Mr Gregory knows this & he thinks it better to let things rest as they are at present.
I am sorry to say that it is impossible for me to get a reply to my letters written to the Secretary of the Geographical section of the Association in Adelaide.5 I have written him several letters about my lantern slides6 but can get no reply whatever, although the matter is very important.
With kind regards,
dear Baron von Mueller
very faithfully yours
J. P. Thomson
Baron Sir Ferd von Mueller
K.C.M.G, F.R.S., etc., etc.
Melbourne
editorial addition.
Letter not found.
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
I.e. F. M. Bailey, whose position as Government Botanist of Qld was to be abolished; see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 November 1893.
J. W. Jones.
Thomson had presented a paper on ‘Fiji’ to the Geography Section at the 5th congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Adelaide, 25 September – 2 October 1893.
Please cite as “FVM-93-11-27,” 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