Botanical Garden.
12 Sept. 1854.
Sir
I do myself the honor to inform you in reply to your request from this day1 of forwarding to you instantly my Second annual Report,2 that it will lay not in my power to complet this document before the end of next month, as yet more than hundred species of plants from my last expedition remain to be examined and to be added to the list of 500 already elaborated.
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient and humble servant,
Ferd Mueller.
The honorable the Colonial Secretary.3
Please cite as “FVM-54-09-12a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on