New Zealand
Colonial Secretary's Office
Wellington 6th October 1874
Sir
Dr Hector has handed to this Department your letter to him of the 10th of August last on the subject of the conservation of Colonial forests, in which you suggest that a new edition of your "forest trees and industrial plants" should be brought out in New Zealand; and are so good as to say that you give your gratuitous consent to the publication, and kindly offer to make an alphabetical re-arrangement of the three portions and a new grouping as a key to the whole, and to give some additional, as yet unpublished, notes together with a geographical index, which is ready
I am directed by the Colonial Secretary Dr Pollen, to acknowledge with thanks your kind offer, and to request that you will favour the Government by sending over a copy of your original work with such additions and alterations as you may think advisable for a new edition.1
I am obliged to ask you to send a copy as our Parliamentary library does not contain one, & Dr Hector has mislaid his.
G. S. Cooper
Under Secretary
The Baron F Von Mueller C.M.G., F.R.S.
Government Botanist
Melbourne2
The file copy of this letter contains an additional sentence that has been struck through: 'The book shall be put into the hands of the Govt Printer without delay, with the view of its being issued from the press during the recess of Parliament.'
See also M to J. Hector, 26 October 1874 (in this edition as 74-10-26a).
For a draft copy of this letter see: IA/1/1874/2016. See also M to J. Hector, 10 August 1874.
Please cite as “FVM-74-10-06b,” 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