[My Dear Sir,—As I found it to be impossible to give the time necessary to carefully examine and name the beautiful collection of grasses in the book sent for exhibition by your nephew, Mr. K. H. Bennett,1 I wrote to my friend, Baron Von Mueller, of Melbourne, to ask if he would kindly assist me in this work, and, as I expected, he at once responded to my request. The Baron, like myself, is greatly pleased with this fine collection of specimens, so carefully and beautifully preserved, and speaks or rather writes of your nephew in the most flattering terms.]
Kenrick Harold Bennett, c. 1840-1891 (George (2009)).
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Grazier. Native grasses', Australian town and country journal (Sydney), 14 February 1880, p. 306. The article discusses 'a unique book of grass specimens, 90 altogether, collected by Mr. K. H. Bennett between the lower Lachlan and Darling Rivers' (NSW) on display at the Garden Palace in Sydney. The article quotes a letter from Charles Moore, dated Botanic Gardens Sydney,4 October 1879 to Bennett's uncle, W[illiam] A[dams] Brodribb (1809-1886), from which the extract here is taken. The letter from M is dated to September 1879 as the latest that it is likely to have been written to be quoted on 4 October.
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-00i,” 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