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RSA/A/5 Council minute book, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 85.03.00Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Agnew, 1885-03. 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/1880-9/1885/85-03-00-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026
1
Letter not found; item is an entry in the minutes of the monthly meeting of the Council
of the Society, 31 March 1885.
[Letter read from Baron Von Müeller enclosing as a present a lithograph portrait of
Labillardiere. The Council being informed by the Curator
that Govt. were willing to have copies struck off, agreed that 450 be asked for in
order that one might be bound in each no. of the Journal for 1885
]
2
Alex Morton.
3
The lithograph was published as a frontispiece to the Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1885 (1886) with biographical notes by M in the same volume, pp.334-5 (B86.13.02). See
also M to J. Agnew, July 1885 (in this edition as 85-07-00).