From Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn   22 Oct 1858

Melbourne bot and zool. Garden,

22. Oct 1858.

My dear Mr Gunn

Knowing that you are at all time ready to serve our favorite science, I take the liberty to solicit from you a specimen of Gunnia, if you have such to spare, however small, as long as it contains at least one expanded flower for disection, as I am working on some new parasital orchid of this country and wished to compare Gunnia, which I have never seen.

I enclose for the Launceston Industrial Exhibition a specimen of Angora-wool grown in the Colony, the animals being now in the possession of this department are thriving well. —

My report is now nearly printed & I shall feel much [pleasure]1 in sending it to you [...]2 week. Of my fragmenta [phy]tographiae Australiae [...] 3 are out, which I believe [I sen]t to you, N. 4 is under [press].

With all sincerity

yours

Ferd. Mueller.

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Gunnia

uncertain reading — partly covered by ink blot.

illegible — covered by ink blot. The square brackets that follow also have this meaning.

Please cite as “FVM-58-10-22,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-10-22