To Edward Ramsay   28 January 1876

28/1/76

 

I thank you for your friendly intention, dear Mr Ramsay, to send me the Cycas and other plants: Mr Fitzalan, though generally accurate, may have matched the fruit & leaves wrongly. I like you to share also in discoveries of these kinds, especially as you were yourself in the north. Mr Fitzalan's last collections disappointed me; he lost his time about terrestrial & other common ferns, and missed meanwhile the trees which likely would have contained a fair percentage of novelty. We know now however through him two more Musas sufficiently accurately for naming.1

The scitaminous plants from the Duke of York's Island are not likely Marantas, but will be interesting anyhow.

Can Mr Künstler2 not join the Missionaries at Cape York, to be with them & d'Albertis3 in their journeys to New Guinea?

Regardfully yr

Ferd von Mueller.

 

I wonder what has become of the Doctor Mr Knight & Mrs4

 

Cycas

Maranta

Musa

 
1
M. described M. hillii (B75.11.02, p. 188) and M. fitzallanii (B75.12.01, p. 188), both from specimens collected by Fitzalan from the the Daintree River.
2
Not positively identified.
3
Luigi Maria d'Albertis.
4
Not positively identified.

Please cite as “FVM-76-01-28,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/76-01-28