Sonntag 20/1/95
Erlauben Sie mir, lieber Herr Tepper, die Vorfrage, wer der deutsche Gelehrte (ein Doctor) ist, von dem ich als angekommen in Adelaide gehört habe, u welcher ein Mitglied der Royal Geographical Society von England ist. Ich habe seinen Namen nicht erfahren können. Reist er in geographischen Interesse?
Entschuldigen Sie die Kurze dieses Schreibens als der Product einer sehr späten Stunde.
Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
Da die meisten Examen-Arbeiten für 1893 nun vorüber sind, werde ich bald Ihre rückständigen letzten Pflanzen vornehmen.
Sunday 20/1/95
Permit me the question, dear Mr Tepper, who is the German scholar (a doctor), of whom I have heard as having arrived in Adelaide and who is a member of the Royal Geographical Society of England. I have not been able to ascertain his name. Does he travel in the interests of geography?1
Excuse the shortness of this letter as the product of a very late hour.
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Since the majority of the examination work for 18932 is now passed, I will soon get to work on your last overdue plants.
Kronecker was the person concerned (see M to O. Tepper, 27 January 1895) but M's information that he was a member of the RGS was mistaken: there is no RGS 'candidate for election certificate' for Kronecker, nor is he in Fellow listings in Year Books for the period.
The year written by M is unambiguously 1893 but almost certainly should have been 1894. In the date on his letter M did not write '95' in error for '94': in 1895, 20 January was a Sunday. See also M to A. Macdonald, 6 December 1894, where M reported that he was expecting to be occupied conducting examinations during December 1894.
MS annotations by Tepper: 'Recd 22.1.95. Reply 22.1.95' [letter not found], and 'Only Dr Franz Kronecker 4 months ago, known'.
Please cite as “FVM-95-01-20,” 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