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A38 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch) papers, letter book, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 89.04.25Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1889-04-25. 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/1880-9/1889/89-04-25-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
25/4/89.
Being engaged for Saturday noon, dear Mr MacDonald, I have thanked the Directors of
the Evening-Standard for their invitation, and stated to them, that I had transferred
the ticket to
you
as the executive Representative of the R.G.S.A. of Austral.
here. As you are now arranging the accounts, will you kindly send my £10— also to
the Hon. Dr Campbell in Adelaide, as a contribution of mine, (which was overlooked
previously,) towards the fund of Tietkens' Expedition. I have great hopes for his
success. I
have
written to the Under-Secretary fully about the desirability of £1000 again being
placed on the estimates of 1889-1890, so that we may have fund again for the season
1890.
I will follow this up by a personal interview. Within the next days I shall write
a letter, (similarly to the last) as a sort of Duplicate
to the Rev. Mr Lawes, our Representative in NG,
urging that the Rev Mr Chalmers ascends the Owen Stanley's Ranges in 1889 yet. I
am
very busy
, so much so in the Department, that I had to work all the Easter-holidays through
1
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
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Letter not found.
3
as a sort of Duplicate is a marginal addition, its intended position indicated by an asterisk.
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New Guinea. No such letter has been found.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller