The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 9/12/90 ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter, just received, dear Mr Jackson, ¶ I have with sadness to tell you, that the Police Magistrate of Stroud, the venerable C. H Fawcett, has passed away some months ...

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Linnean Society, London, Archives, Guard Book,1885-93, p 225. 90.12.09

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Ferdinand von Mueller to B. Daydon Jackson, 1890-12-09. 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/1890-6/1890/90-12-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

9/12/90

In reply to your letter, just received, dear Mr Jackson,

Letter not found.

I have with sadness to tell you, that the Police Magistrate of Stroud, the venerable C. H Fawcett, has passed away some months ago.

C. H. Fawcet ... ago underlined in blue pencil.

Fawcett died on 15 March 1890 (Sydney morning herald, 18 March 1890, p. 7).

At his advanced age his correspondence with me became gradually less, and as he was alone in the world, he having had no family-life, no one informed me of his death, and I only learnt this mournful event incidentally not long ago.

Regardfully

your Ferd. von Mueller

Annotated R Notd [AH]

The initials are in the form of a monogram, probably that of Arthur Rashdall Hammond, Clerk to the Council of the Linnean Society (Gage & Stearn (1988), p. 78).