To Isaac Featherston1    14 January 1859

Melbourne botan. & zoolog. Garden,

14 Jan. 1859

My dear Dr Featherstone

For the kind transmission of a Wardian case ful of New Zealand plants, I have to tender you my cordial thanks. The plants arrived in an excellent state and I shall not fail to act according to your request & furnish his Excellency2 with a share of them. Having only just returned from an exploratory-journey to our alps, I had not sufficient time to fill the case for return this time, but I will be happy to do so by the next steamer.

— Enclosed in a box, which I forwarded to Auckland for the Novara Frigatte,3 I put a few pamphlets for you, which I hope arrived, altho' they are perhaps of limited interest to you.

I have hitherto failed to receive any dried pressed specimens of plants from the Chatham Islands. I forwarded some paper for drying them to the missionary about 8 months ago. Unless I am anticipated in this work by the Novara, I should gladly have examined the vegetation of this of the N.Z. dependencies, which probably will be interesting, as being the last island under those latitudes in the S. Sea, until we reach Juan Fernandez.4

With sincere regard,

I remain, dear and honorable Sir,

Your very attached

Ferd. Mueller

 

The honor. Dr Featherstone M.D.,

&c &c &c

See also I. Featherston to M, 27 January 1858 and 10 March 1859.
Henry Barkly.
An Austrian scientific expedition visited Australia and New Zealand in 1859 in Novara. See Scherzer (1861-2).
M published an account of the flora of the Chatham Islands in 1864 (B64.13.02).

Please cite as “FVM-59-01-14,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-01-14