Melbourne
3/5/76.1
Since a long time, dear Dr Hector, I intended to have written to you, but in reality nothing specially occurred for doing so, unless to offer my felicitation to your return,2 which gratulation now though tardily yet feelingly I do present.
I was also anxious to ask you, whether a few notes on N.Z. & Chath. Isl. plants would be acceptable for the new volume of the institute,3 and if so by what time such brief memoranda must be sent.
I have never heard again of the fate of my "industrial plants" after Dr Pollen acknowledged the receipt of the corrected and supplemented copy.4 Can you kindly tell me how the prospects are for this intended local N.Z. reissue. Surely 5000 copies, sent out all over N.Z ought to do permanent & extensive good, and that could be accomplished for about £200.5
With best remembrance
Ferd. von Mueller.
M's letter was registered at the Geological Survey Office, Wellington, on 25 May 1876 and forwarded to Hector on 31 May.
Hector has been visiting Europe; see M to J. Hector, 28 July 1877 (in this edition as 77-07-28a).
New Zealand Institute, Wellington.
See G. Cooper to M, 6 October 1874 (in this edition as 74-10-06b), and M to G. Cooper, 3 November 1874.
See M. to G. Cooper, 3 November 1874, and notes thereto. The proposed NZ edition of M's book was never published.
MS black-edged: M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876. MS annotation by [Hector]: 'Ansd 2.10.76'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-76-05-03,” 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