From William Woolls   31 March 1879

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 Bauer did not collect all the Norfolk Island ferns, for other collectors found there

Dicksonia davallioides

Davallia pyxidata

Lindsaea linearis

Pellaea rotundifolia

Lomaria discolor 4

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

1
NSW.
2
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.
3
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).
4
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