Melbourne bot Garden
17/7/72.
I am not at all sure, dear Dr Hector, whether I have thanked you for the kind sending of your valuable publications. They are real boons and treasures! You will be aware that I had here extraordinary harrassing anxieties in the Department, which indeed are not yet fully overcome. Thus I have hardly commenced to work on a final elaboration of the plants from the Chathamian Islands. As for Mr Travers popular work1 an enumeration of the genera will suffice I fancy that the short postponement of the elaboration will cause no displeasure2
My list of industrial plants,3 now to be sent, will serve you also as your clime is so similar to ours.
I will endeavour to complete your copy of the series of my Fragmenta, as far as it is still possible.4
I will write to Mr Travers also by this mail.5
yours with sincere friendship
Ferd. von Mueller
Please cite as “FVM-72-07-17,” 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