To Edward Ramsay   9 January 1880

9./1./80.

 

The W.A. plant, just sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, is Anigosanthus1 flavida of Redouté. I cultivated it since 1857. I never heard of the intended New Guinea Expedition. Who is the Mr White, to whom you refer?2

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Best salutation & felicitation to new decennium. Have you nothing new of plants from the North?

In the event of my preferring to go to north-east Australia, which months would you advise as the most salubrious or least dangerous. I suppose the cool season would be the time.3

 

Anigosanthus flavida

 
1
Aginozanthos?
2
Possibly the ornithologist Samuel White, who in 1880 sailed up the east Australian coast and through Torres Strait into the Arafura Sea on a collecting expedition.
3
This paragraph is on a separate sheet, separated in the file from the rest of the letter by several pages. It may belong to a different letter.

Please cite as “FVM-80-01-09,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-01-09