In 1871, Easter fell on 9 April.
B70.13.01? Copy not found.
M's request for plants was almost certainly connected with his preparing a new paper for his series 'Contributions to the phytography of Tasmania', published in the Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. In the event, the next paper in the series did not appear until 1874 (B74.13.05), when, in introducing it, M wrote (p. 58): 'It was intended to offer this new contribution some considerable time ago, but the harassing anxieties which arose during the last few years in the writer's official life, and the impediment which thus occurred to his work in all directions, must plead excuse for the retarded appearance of this record of all those plants, placed so kindly at his disposal by several disinterested contributors'. Story is listed as supplying specimens of a number of plants.
Please cite as “FVM-71-04-09a,” 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