The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [By the July mail, however, I received a letter from my friend Dr. Muëller, in which he acquaints me with the fact that the £500 is not forthcoming; inasmuch as, although the vote was passed to pla...

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59.07.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Wilson, 1859-07 [59.07.00b]. 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//letters/1850-9/1859/59-07-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see Argus, 17 December 1859, p. 5. Wilson referred to M’s letter in a letter to the Editor of the Argus, 13 October 1859, from Douglas, Isle of Man, about a sum of government money promised to the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria.

[By the July mail, however, I received a letter from my friend Dr. Muëller, in which he acquaints me with the fact that the £500 is not forthcoming; inasmuch as, although the vote was passed to place this sum upon the Supplementary Estimates, no such sum was placed upon them, and the matter, therefore, is still in abeyance.

Wilson protested that he had promoted Victorian acclimatisation as having government support and ‘am now liable to be stigmatised as a liar’. ‘The mortification has been in some measure alleviated by the remittance – through Dr. Mueller, by the last mail – of the sum of £75, saved, I presume, from some former vote for similar purposes. But my personal experience in such matters leads me to know that no great progress can be made in the desired direction by any such sum as this.’ See also M to J.O’Shanassy, 1 August 1859, in which M seeks permission to send the £75 to Wilson.

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