Newyears day 1869
Thousand thanks, dear Dr Hooker, for the transmission of the 1. vol of the Flora of tropical Africa.1 It reflects high credit on its accomplished authors and will be to me of especial utility, for comparisons of the tropical plants of Australia. I have the gift officially acknowledged.2 Many thanks also for the specimen of Posidonia. It will help still further on the comparisons. I am looking forward with grateful expectation to Dionaea, Sarracenia &c The public here want to see from time to time new and striking things. I am just providing my garden with a steam engine to raise the water of the Yarra River for irrigation over my 400 acres.3
From Kings Island I have recently Elaeocarpus cyaneus & from Flinders Island Pseudanthus ovalifolius. Thus 2 genera are added to your Tasmanian flora.
Wishing you health & happiness in the new year I remain
your attached
Ferd von Mueller
I have through Dulau [added] a copy of your icones.4 So I [have] all your valuable works complete.
Dionaea
Elaeocarpus cyaneus
Posidonia
Pseudanthus ovalifolius
Sarracenia
Please cite as “FVM-69-01-01a,” 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/69-01-01a