[Sent Baron Mueller a duplicate set of the first 17 plates of grasses1]
Bailey (1879) was a set of 42 electrotyped lithographic plates, the first impressions of which were 'obtained by the process called Nature-printing' (preface); the process is described in 'Queensland grasses', The week (Brisbane), 17 August 1878, p. 5. The preface also has a note: 'Seventeen of these plates are of a former issue'; however a review in 'Queensland grasses', Australian town and country journal (Sydney), 28 September 1878, p. 597, mentions 11 plates, perhaps a typographical error. The set sent to M are presumably from this first issue.
Letter not found; item is a notebook summary only, dated 17 December 1878.
Please cite as “FVM-78-12-17c,” 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