To James Hector   22 March 1880

Melbourne,

22/3/80.

 

Allow mw, dear Dr Hector, to ask from you a favor in your official capacity. Could you kindly call in the N. Z. Gov. Gazette for a tender for fourty pounds (40 lb) of seeds of your native Kauri-pine, fresh of the season and carefully collected and dried. If any tender should prove fair, I shall accept it.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Of course, the tender must be for clean seeds, not cones.1

 
1

A draft of the notice for the Gazette, annotated ‘Gazetted 18.4.80’, is attached to M’s letter:

Tender for the Supply of Kauri Seeds.

Colonial Museum

Wellington 13th April 1880

Tenders will be received up to noon of Friday April 30th, for the supply of forty pounds weight of Kauri Pine Seed of this season, carefully collected and dried.

Tenders to be addressed to Dr Hecor, Colonial Museum, Wellington, and endorsed “Tender for Kauri Seed.”

The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted.

J. Hector

Please cite as “FVM-80-03-22a,” 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 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-03-22a