Ferdinand von Mueller

27. 11. [189]3

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editorial addition.

Dear Baron von Mueller,

I laid your letter of the 3rd. inst.

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Letter not found.

before Mr Gregory & I ventured to read it at one of the meetings of the local committee of the Australasian Association,

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Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

but unfortunately it was not received by the latter in the same noble & generous feeling in which was written. Mr B.

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I.e. F. M. Bailey, whose position as Government Botanist of Qld was to be abolished; see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 November 1893.

I find is a very strange man to deal with; he thinks those who try to help him are doing so from unfriendly motives & consequently it is difficult to approach him in any way. Mr Gregory knows this & he thinks it better to let things rest as they are at present.

I am sorry to say that it is impossible for me to get a reply to my letters written to the Secretary of the Geographical section of the Association in Adelaide.

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J. W. Jones.

I have written him several letters about my lantern slides

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Thomson had presented a paper on ‘Fiji’ to the Geography Section at the 5th congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Adelaide, 25 September – 2 October 1893.

but can get no reply whatever, although the matter is very important.

Baron Sir Ferd von Mueller

K.C.M.G, F.R.S., etc., etc.

Melbourne