The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 3/10/77. ¶ ¶ I go for about two months to West-Australia, dear Mr Shillinglaw, to collect & observe for my Department. ¶ I suppose there will be plenty of time for biographic notes til I return in D...

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Physical location:

Box 244/3, Shillinglaw papers, La Trobe Australian manuscripts collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 77.10.03

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1877-10-03. 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/1870-9/1877/77-10-03-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

3/10/77.

I go for about two months to West-Australia, dear Mr Shillinglaw, to collect & observe for my Department.

M left Melbourne on RMSS Siam on 4 October.

I suppose there will be plenty of time for biographic notes til I return in December.

See M to J. Shillinglaw, 28 September 1777.

Otherwise reprint simply what you may find in the London book.

i.e. the entry on M in Men of the time (London, 1875), pp. 744-5; the entry in Men of the time in Australia: Victorian series (Melbourne, 1878), p. 138, is much shorter.

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller.