Melbourne bot Garden
16/6/73.
Accept my best thanks, dear Dr Hector, for sending me through Mr Gore1 the new volume, which reflects great credit on your administration and on the zeal of your cooperators.2 I have placed it in the Library of my museum; that I could not absolve fully yet my obligations, concerning the Chatham Island plants you will understand, when you reflect how I had to "struggle for existence" for the last year and more. When I get peace, I will give my attention to them.
Your friend
Ferd von Mueller
How far have you got my fragmenta.3 I will endeavour to complete your set
R. B. Gore.
Probably Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Istitute, vol. 5, edited by Hector and issued in May 1873; it included M's preliminary notes on a collection of Chatham Island plants (B73.05.01). R. Gore to M, 9 April 1872 (in this edition as 72-04-09a) announced that a parcel of Chatham Is. plants, collected by H. Travers and purchased by the museum, had been sent.
Fragmenta no. 61 was issued in June 1873 (B73.06.03).
Please cite as “FVM-73-06-16a,” 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