Richmond1
March 31 /79
My dear Baron,
I send you a paragraph from to-day's Herald.2 It will make the subject known. We have lately come upon a fossil fern or aquatic plant in sandstone. As soon as I can get a drawing, I will send it to you. It seems to be a frond of several inches, reticulated.
I am sorry to say that I cannot help you about the Orchid, & I am glad that you have written to Canon King.3
I find that Bauer4 did not collect all the Norfolk Island ferns, for other collectors found there
Dicksonia davallioides
Davallia pyxidata
Lindsaea linearis
Pellaea rotundifolia
Lomaria discolor5
Nephrolepis tuberosa
I hope some of these days you will publish a full list of the Norfolk Island Ferns.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
Davallia pyxidata
Dicksonia davallioides
Lindsaea linearis
Lomaria discolor
Nephrolepis tuberosa
Pellaea rotundifolia
NSW.
See Sydney morning herald, 31 March 1879, p. 5, for a review of B78.11.01, M's descriptions of new fossil plants; the review was almost certainly written by Woolls whose newspaper pieces were rarely signed.
Letter not found, but see R. King to M, 1 April 1879, and M to the Gardeners' chronicle, May 1879 (in this edition as 79.05.00c).
Ferdinand Bauer.
This entry is marked with a cross.
MS found with a specimen of Cyathea cunninghamii (MEL 224426), from the Dandenong Ranges [Vic], October 1878. There is an anonymous note on the MS: 'The letter seems to have nothing to do with the collection.'
Please cite as “FVM-79-03-31b,” 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