Ferdinand von Mueller

14/2/88.

This afternoon, dear Mr Macdonald, three of the Council met, viz Mr Panton, Mr Gordon

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George Gordon.

and myself. We unanimously agreed on the request of Mr Favenc, who attended:

1, to supply (on his written request) also to a written recommendation, that Mr Cuthbertson had carried out the survey-work during the Society's Expedition to Mt Obree

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Papua New Guinea.

with ability, and a letter to that effect was at once given to Mr Favenc.

2, that our Branch would give a subsidy of £100 to Mr Favenc himself for his expedition on a clear understanding, that he ( not we ) should make all arrangements with Mr Cuthbertson, and that at once after Mr F. return the principle geographic results of the expedition with sketch-map should be communicated by Mr Favenc to us as well as a share of mineral-specimens and any other collections formed, and that the Vict branch should not be held liable for any other payments whatsoever .

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See E. Favenc to M, 27 December 1887. Favenc spent several months commencing in March 1888 exploring the upper reaches of the Gascoyne and Ashburton Rivers, WA. His report was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, London, rather than in those of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia; see Favenc (1889). Cuthbertson accompanied the expedition as surveyor; no sketch map has been found.