Ferdinand von Mueller

25/3/63

Dear Mr Pamplin.

I have not yet your annual account. I suppose Mr Anderson paid the £45 " — — & I have urged on Dr Anderson in Calcutta to liquidate also the claim of £80 — and to place the sum at your disposal.

1

M had paid Pamplin money on behalf of Robert Anderson; see M to J. Hooker, 25 March 1862; M to J. Hooker, 22 June 1862; M to W. Pamplin, 26 July 1862 (in this edition as 62-07-26a); and M to W. Pamplin, 26 September 1862.

I received the journals of the R.G.S. by last mail. Pray do not send anything more except what is specially ordered to come that way by the overland mail, as it causes an extravagant expense in freight. Pray economize the funds which you will receive from Mr Anderson as far as possible.

I would like to know what collections of McGillivray are purchasable at Cumings & at what price.

2

Hugh Cuming had advanced money to John MacGillivray to help finance his collecting; see Dance (1980), p. 493, and H. Cuming to F. Strange, 1 February 1855, in Whittell (1947), pp. 112-3.