30/3/78
The plants, so considerately offered by you, dear Capt Hutton, will be much prized by me for completing the N.Z. section of plants in my Museum. I happen to have ready about 350 sp. of mostly select Australian plants (dried), which were intended for a correspondent in America. These you shall have in return for the Otago Museum, and I will despatch them at once. They contain many rarities from various parts of the Australian continent. More specimens can be sent hereafter; but I just start for Gippsland with the other commissioners1 to enquire, whether the supply of bark of Acacia pycnantha and A. decurrens is likely to continue for our local tanneries.
What has become of our friend Liversidge? I was not aware, that he was absent.2
If, at any time, you should fall in with fossil fruits, the elucidation of which requiring a general knowledge of the plants of the globe, would you then kindly entrust their elaboration to me?
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Please send a shipping receipt pr post when you forward the plants, so that there is no fear of them going astray; Adress simply to me "Melbourne"
Acacia decurrens
Acacia pycnantha
Please cite as “FVM-78-03-30,” 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