Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.200/1, item 1, letter book, p. 430, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 87.01.22

Preferred Citation:

David Lindsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1887-01-22. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/87-01-22>, accessed April 21, 2025

Adelaide
22nd Jany 1887
Baron F. Von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c &c.
Melbourne
Dear Sir,
As I am preparing a statement of expenses connected with the botanical collection for the S.A. branch of the R.G.S.A. I am desirous of knowing your intentions in regard to the amount promised me by you. Will you very kindly reply at your earliest convenience
Hoping you are well
I am
Yours very faithfully
David Lindsay
Surveyor & Explorer
1
In "Report of an Exploring Expedition across Australia by David Lindsay" (pp. 165-6) Lindsay wrote: 'From Dalhousie [SA] a collection of plants were sent to the Honorable The Minister For Education to be forwarded to Baron Von Mueller for classification. In this collection as well as in all others subsequently transmitted there were, as far as possible, three specimens of each plant so that one complete set could be kept by the Baron, and one by the Geographical Society leaving another for Lieutenant Dittrich and myself to dispose of as we might consider fit.' [ML MSS.200/1, item 2, (1887-90)].