To Ronald Gunn   22 October 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

 
1
uncertain reading — partly covered by ink blot.
2
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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-10-22