Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne

13/5/70

This morning, dear Mr Tulk, I intend to commence some preliminaries in reference to arranging the collections of vegetable substances for the technological Museum.

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See M to J. MacPherson, 11 May 1870 (in this edition as 70-05-11d). M was evidently not proposing to wait for the general issue he had raised in that letter to be resolved before commencing work on the collections.

At about 4 o'clock I will come in myself, and meet Mr Hoffmann there in the main hall or annex and I should be obliged, if you would give Mr Hoffmann access in the meanwhile, in order that he may commence an inventory with a view of scientific labelling &c. I shall not stay until dusk but I hope that the byefollowing letter from the Chairman of the Industrial Section of the Trustees

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Samuel Bindon. Letter not found.

will be sufficient authority to give Mr Hoffmann & myself access to the building at least during day hours. But I should like to know, whether in these long evenings I could be allowed also access to the building with the object of working on the collections. Pray let me say, that this task, however gladly I will perform it, as far as I can among other duties, is not one of my own seeking. Pray tell Mr Hoffmann, where the skilled work man, to whom the hon. Sam Bindon alludes, can be found