The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [Included in the correspondence read was a telegram from Baron von Mueller, offering his valedictory homage to his Excellency after having continued in Australia his long and brilliant career.]...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch, 1895-10-25 [95.10.25b]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-10-25b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Telegram not found. The text given here is from 'Royal Geographical Society, Paper by the Governor', a report of the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch, held on 25 October 1895, in Brisbane courier, 28 October 1895, p. 3. The meeting included a farewell to the retiring Governor, who presented a paper on Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage, prompted by a remark in a Sydney newspaper that the memorial to Cook in Hawaii was 'an unworthy memorial to a not particularly deserving hero'.

M's telegram is dated to the day of the meeting as this was his frequent practice on similar occasions.

[Included in the correspondence read was a telegram from Baron von Mueller, offering his valedictory homage to his Excellency after having continued in Australia his long and brilliant career.]