Easterday, 1867
This day, dear Dr Story, I learn from Mr Will. Rasche, that you most generously tendered your kind offer to collect material for my scientific works. I accept this aid with the utmost of pleasure especially as I have absolutely nothing of Museum plants from Freycenets peninsula or its vicinity, though I have many plants from the Western Mountains, Mount Lapeyrous,1 from near Hobarton2 & Launceston & Georgetown.
Engaged as I am with the President of the L.S.3 on an universal work on the plants of Australia, of which 3 volumes appeared,4 I am anxious to introduce the plants from your vicinity none from there being as yet recorded. You could greatly oblige me therefore, if you fill any old papers you have with any plant in flower & fruit, from a moss up to an Eucalypt! Nothing will come amiss! & your name will always be recorded. Any rarity I can at once publish in my fragmenta of which the 6th vol is in print
Algae would be also welcome. For altho' my late celebrated friend Prof Harvey collected so much, we are most eager to record new localities. I shall gladly reciprocate for any gifts. Mr Rasche says, that an opening exists for a medical man in your vicinity. I will ask Dr Murray, a very superior practitioner (now out of engagement) to place himself in communication with you
yr regardful
Ferd Mueller5
Please cite as “FVM-67-04-21,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/67-04-21