To Robert Wadsworth   23 April 1870

Melbourne bot Garden

23/4/70

 

Will you be so kind, dear Mr Wadsworth, to apprize his Excellency Viscount Canterbury of my wish, to connect his honored name as a lasting mark of homage with one of the 3 magnificent Palms recently discovered in Lord Howes Island,1 one other being dedicated to Earl Belmere,2 in whose colonial territory the discovery was made. A small plant of the Kentia Canterburiana is in my conservatory, and I hope to secure one for his Lordship from Mr Ch. Moore.

Your very regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

 

I have written the description of this magnificent plant for the current number of my Fragmenta.3

 

Kentia Canterburiana

 
1
Kentia canteburyana. See B70.04.01, p. 101.
2
Belmore? M described Kentia Belmoreana and K. Mooreana, both also from Lord Howe Island, in the same issue of the Fragmenta (pp. 99 and 101 respectively).
3
MS annotation by Viscount Canterbury: 'Inform Dr Von Mueller that I accept with gratification his offer to confer my name on a recently discovered Palm Tree | Cy | May 12 1870'. The same day, Wadsworth added 'Done'.

Please cite as “FVM-70-04-23e,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-04-23e