From Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector   18 June 1872

Melbourne bot Garden

18/6/72

By this post, dear Dr Hector, I send for your Museum the new vol. of the Fragmenta.1 Will you oblige with 2 copies of your & Mr Hutton's valuable essays on NZ fishes,2 one for my own use and one for a European friend. I have to thank you also for the agamous pl.3 fr Chat Isl.4 lately received

your friend

Ferd von Mueller

Mr Ludlum will take young trees with him on his return

B72.02.08.

Hutton (1872), Hector (1872).

MEL holds specimens of 16 algae, 15 ferns and allies, and 1 fungus, as well as 6 flowering plants, collected by H. H. Travers from the Chatham Islands in 1872. More species were included in 73.05.02 than are now held at MEL.

Chatham Islands.

MS annotation probably by Hector: 'Asd. Office letter thanks for the Vol VII of Fragmenta'.

Please cite as “FVM-72-06-18,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-06-18