The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 13 May 1885 ¶ ¶ Suggest appoint Froggatt second Zoologist. Hardy Constitution ample work for two Haarke ¶ probably will fit unknown to me personally am looking out for Surgeon & Geologist merely rec...

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Physical location:

ML MSS.2134/1, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch) papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 85.05.13

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Pulsford, 1885-05-13. 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/1880-9/1885/85-05-13-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

For a summary of the above telegram see ML MSS.853/2 letter register, no. 521, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch), Mitchell Library.

13 May 1885

Telegraph Office date stamp.

TELEGRAM from MELBOURNE Station,

Addressed to Edw Pulsford Secy Geographic Socy Sy.

Sydney.

Suggest appoint Froggatt second Zoologist. Hardy Constitution ample work for two Haarke

Telegraphist's error for Haacke, i.e. Wilhelm Haacke?

probably will fit unknown to me personally am looking out for Surgeon & Geologist merely recommendation

Staff for the 1885 New Guinea expedition being organized by the New South Wales Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia. See M to E. Pulsford, 15 May 1885 (in this edition as 85-05-15c).

(signed) Baron von Mueller