Melbourne, bot & zool. Garden.
12 Sept. 1861
Dear and venerable Sir William.
By the "Wellesley" under care of [its] Commander I have forwarded to you a parcel of about 60 ferns collected by Mr John Cairns in the Feegee1 Islands. I consider it my duty to place this little material at your disposal for your valuable work on ferns. Should any of these species be quite superfluous to your herbarium, I will be thankful to receive them back again through Mr Pamplin.
With my best regards &c
your ever gratefully attached
Ferd. Mueller
Perhaps you can kindly arrange to send for the ferns, if the Captain not brings them to Kew.
Please cite as “FVM-61-09-12a,” 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