Melbourne bot Garden
26/8/72.
Yesterday, dear Prof Gray, I got the packages of Museum plants, through your generous intervention secured from Mr. Curtiss and Dr. Anderson, and obligingly brought by the Captain of the Ship Burnside.1 Both contributions are splendid additions to my Museum material, and I will make a countersending as soon as I have a fair opportunity. This occurs rarely direct to Boston; so I may perhaps avail myself of the San Francisco Line for the purpose. The acorns will be always a great boon and so any nuts. The wood specimens &c &c for your own purposes shall gladly also be forwarded.
Always with regardful and grateful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
The "select plants"2 sent by last mail may prove also useful information to your southern states. Any additional notes to that publication and my former list of timbertrees3 would be incorporated in an early supplement and gratefully be acknowledged. Prof. Torrey, Prof. Brewer, Mr. Eaton Prof. Chapman & others, may feel inclined to furnish also kindly a few supplemental notes.
Please cite as “FVM-72-08-26,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-08-26