To Alphonse Milne-Edwards   30 August 1894

30/8/94

 

It is very pleasing to me, dear Prof Milne-Edwards, that I am able to send you a box with nat. hist. specimens by this voyage of the Australien and the Ship takes the Box under the care of Dr Lamarq1 and Mons Ailland free But as both remain in Marseille, I would advise you to communicate with them by letter, so soon as this letter arrives, as by that time the Australien will have reached France.

Dr Rougier, who so often with great kindness saw to the bringing of contributions for the Museum to you, is — as you will be aware — appointed to a position to the Pasteur Laboratory in Sydney,2 so that it now3 necessary to communicate from Paris to Marseille, whenever the “Australien” arrives, as I shall endeavour to send by that fine ship every voyage, therefore 3 times each year.

I had a most generous letter from Prof Maxime Cornu by last mail.4 What a dreadful sadness the death of your late most honored President!5

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

 

It will probably be best that my sendings be only forwarded every 4 month under the personal surveillance of Capt Castellan6

1
Lamarque? Surgeon on Australien .
2
Louis Pasteur sent a mission to Sydney in 1890 in response to the announcement by the NSW Government of a prize for a successful method of controlling the burgeoning plague of rabbits in the colony. The project failed but the laboratory that was established later supplied an effective vaccine against anthrax, before being closed in 1898. Rougier was appointed director in 1894.
3
will be left out?
4
Letter not found.
5
The President of France, Sadi Carnot, was assassinated on 24 June 1894.
6
The postscript is written on one of M's herbarium labels and has been numbered 249a at the Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. It is not clear that it belongs with this letter.

Please cite as “FVM-94-08-30,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-08-30