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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Ernest Bickford   10 Sep 1896

10/9/96

[…] Beckford1

This letter is by dictation as I do not feel well but I must not delay to acknowledge your kind letter just received2 I will certify at once an application paper for your candidature at the Linnean Society of London.3 Your idea of starting a special society for investigating the W. Australian flora is as clever as it is original, by all means try to realize the subject, the membership need not be expensive but ought to be allotted also to numerous ladies & gentlemen in the far interior. I will readily undertake to name specimens which they may send to you or to me, it is very cheering to me that you will endeavour to obtain still this spring any sorts of minute plants & any uncommon species.

With regardful remembrance

Your

Ferd. von Mueller

1

Corner of MS torn away. Luehmann has mis-spelled Bickford's name.

2

Letter not found.

3

See M to the Linnean Society of London, 11 September 1896.

4

MS sent by Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, to Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, ca. 1989. MS written by Georg Luehmann and signed by M in a very shaky hand.

Please cite as “FVM-96-09-10,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-09-10