31/5/94.
As I have some more specimens ready for the Musée d'histoire naturelle of Paris, dear Chevalier De Jardin, do you think, that it could be arranged, that the Doctor of the June French Mailsteamer2 kindly take them? Perhaps the medical Gentleman may anyhow have to go to Paris. As our friend Dr Rougier will be only some months later here, by which time other donations to the Museum could likely be procured, it might be best, to send the present articles off by next Steamer.
Most regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
I was elected into Alph de Candolles place at the Ural Nat. Science Society, Katharinenburg3 and some other Societies4
MS annotation: 'cé no 161 1er Juin 1894' [Despatch no. 161, 1 June 1894] and 'Rep verbalement le 14 Juin' [Answered verbally on 14 June]. Letter not found.
Polynesien sailed from Melbourne for Marseiles on 1 July 1894.
Uralian Society of Natural Science [Uralskoye obshtchestvo yestestvoznaniya], Ekaterinenburg.
I was … Societies is written on one of M's Herbarium labels and may not be part of this letter. Alphonse de Candolle had died on 4 April 1893.
Please cite as “FVM-94-05-31,” 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