The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 7/1/96 ¶ ¶ Best New Year greetings to you, dear Mr Tepper. Another small present has been sent to you. ¶ ¶ Would you do me the favour of asking in the German Consulate there whether one or two years...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 96.01.07

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1896-01-07. 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/96-01-07>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS annotation by Tepper: 'Reply 10.1.96 [letter not found] Atlas of Photograms apparently issued privately by Geog. Soc., to write to Secr. Hon. S. Newland. Prof Watson had no copy. Do not meet Dr Browne'.

7/1/96

Bester Neujahrsgruss Ihnen, lieber Herr Tepper. Es wird noch ein kleines Geschenk an Sie abgehen.

Wollen Sie mir den Gefallen erzeigen zu erfragen im Deutsche Consulat dort, ob vor 1 oder 2 Jahren ein Atlas der Photogramme der Elder Expedition für Hofrath Perthes in Gotha erlangt werden konnte. Er bat mich darum für sein Journal "geogr Mittheilungen.

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Ich habe aber trotz aller meinen Mühen und Privat Ausgeben für die Elder Expedition nie selbst ein Exemplar bekommen. Würde Dr Brown als Gefährte von Sturt mein Lithogram als Andenken annehmen.

Ihr

Ferd. von Mueller.

7/1/96

Best New Year greetings to you, dear Mr Tepper. Another small present has been sent to you.

Would you do me the favour of asking in the German Consulate there whether one or two years ago an atlas of photographs of the Elder Expedition was able to be obtained for Hofrath Perthes in Gotha. He asked me for it for his journal Geogr. Mittheilungen.

Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen. M to A. Supan, 14 January 1894, reports asking the German consulate to supply the copy of Lindsay (1893) forwarded to Supan. Photographs are not mentioned.

However, despite all my efforts and private expenditure for the Elder Expedition, I have never myself received a copy.

The photographs are presumably those in the two albums of photographs taken during the Elder Scientific Expedition now at the State Library of South Australia, catalogued with the corporate author 'Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch'. No published version has been found. The albums have been digitised by the State Library of South Australia, https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+499 and https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+8442/1-36 .

Would Dr Brown

i.e. J. H. Browne.

as companion of Sturt accept my lithograph as a memento.

Your

Ferd. von Mueller.