New years Eve/ 1893-94.
Am not sure, dear Mr. Williamson, whether I thanked you already for the four beautiful photograms.1 The 'waterfalls' remind me forcibly of what I saw in 1853, when there were only 2 or 3 station huts at those ranges. The Apiary-Hill2 I do not think to have gone over, as I devoted a separate day each to Mt Abrupt and Mt Sturgeon from my camp east of them.3 So I missed the Grevillea.4 At that time the region was also very scrubby.
With best new-years felicitation
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Grevillea
He had; see M to H. Williamson, 28 December 1893
See H. Williamson to M 30 December 1893, and associated photograph: 93-12-30_image01.jpg
Mountains at the southern end of the Grampians, Vic, visited by M during his second Victorian exploring expedition, 1853-4.
See M to H. Williamson, October 1893 (in this edition as 93-10-00a), and M to H. Williamson, November 1893 (in this edition as 93-11-00k).
MS black-edged; M's nephew George Doughty had died on 19 November 1893.
Please cite as “FVM-93-12-31,” 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