The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 18/10/84 ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Mr. Stirling, for the trouble you have taken in marking a copy of your districts map geologically for me. Thus it has become exceedingly valuable for me. What is c...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Stirling, 1884-10-18. 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/1880-9/1884/84-10-18-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026

An abridged version of this letter, to '… which I ascended in 1853.', was published in Barnard (1904), p. 24. See also Gillbank (1992) and Home (2014).

18/10/84

Let me thank you, dear Mr. Stirling, for the trouble you have taken in marking a copy of your districts map geologically for me. Thus it has become exceedingly valuable for me. What is called now Mt. Feathertop is my Mt. Hotham of 1854, and what is named Mt. Bogong I called then already Mt. Latrobe. My rough observations made them higher in proportion to Mt. Buller, which I ascended in 1853.

See also M to J. Stirling, 2 November 1882.

I hope you will be able to add to the records of our Alps-flora this summer, and will discover yet some secluded novel plant, to bear your name. Mt Kosciusko seems to remain in some portions (those farthest away from the track) yet botanically unexplored

Let me hope that you are well and happy.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.