Melbourne,
1/9/75.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Dr Bidie's illustrated work on the Neilgherries Loranthaceae, which volume I have placed into the library of the bot. Museum.1 I beg now to suggest that as a return-gift the 7th & 8th vol. of my "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" may be sent to the Government of the Madras Presidency.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
W H. Odgers Esq &c
Undersecretary.
Bidie (1874).
The Under Secretary, W. Odgers, approved M's request on 3 September 1875 and copies of the vols were sent to Madras.
On 24 November 1875, D. F. Carmichael, the Secretary to Government, Fort St George, Madras wrote to the Chief Secretary of Victoria, Robert Ramsay: 'I am directed to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a copy each of Volumes 7 and 8 of Baron Von Mueller's Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, forwarded with your letter of the 7th September last No. 4015, and to state that the previous volumes of the work have not been received by this Government' (K76/300, unit 899, VPRS 3991/P, Public Record Office, Victoria).
On 11 January 1876 Odgers asked the Government Printer, J. Skinner, if vols.1 to 6 of the Fragmenta could be supplied. Skinner replied on 12 January that vols 2 to 5 were out of print but that vols 1 and 6 could be supplied. Odgers instructed that vols 1 and 6 be forwarded and that it be intimated that vols 2 to 5 were out of print.
On 25 February 1876 Carmichael wrote to Ramsay: 'I am directed to acknowledge with thanks, the receipt of a copy each of Volumes 1 and 6 of Baron Von Mueller's Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae forwarded with your letter of the 19th January 1876 No. 107' (K76/3563, unit 899, VPRS 3991, Public Record Office, Victoria).
Please cite as “FVM-75-09-01,” 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