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Physical location:

ML MSS.774/1 General and Administrative Council minute book, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch) papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. 84.12.00

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmond Marin La Meslée, 1884-12. 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/1880-9/1884/84-12-00-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

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Letter not found; item is from a report of the meeting of the Council of the NSW Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia held on 12 December 1884, in Sydney morning herald, 13 December 1884, p. 10. For another summary, see Proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales and Victorian Branches, vol. 1 (1885), pp. 169-70.
[A letter was read from Baron Von Müeller, vice-president of the Victorian branch of the society, expressing pleasure at the approaching visit of the representatives of the parent society to the annual meeting in Melbourne,
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The Victorian Branch had invited Council members of the NSW Branch to attend its conference in Melbourne on 15 December, and several members had undertaken to do so; see Sydney morning herald, 29 November 1884, p. 10.
and forwarding syllabus of additional questions to be submitted to the conference for discussion, as follows:- "Consideration for effecting improvement in the nomenclature of Australian geography by abolishing synonymy and substituting unambiguous names. Consideration for the best means to be adopted for ascertaining the fate of Dr. Leichhardt's party. Advisability of arranging for the compilation of a general map of Australia and its progressive correction, by the united action of the colonies, on a uniform system. Expediency of creating branches of the society in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia, and of fixing the mutual relations of such branches." These additions to the programme of the conference were warmly endorsed.]