20/5/80
Shall be glad, dear Mr Shillinglaw, to spend an evening with you some day soon & enjoy your enlightened conversation & hospitality.
Will furnish you for your book with a note on R Brown, also on the genus Flindersia, of which R Brown named 2 species, one being from Amboina.1 To these I added eight others, all but one from East Australia, the exceptional one from New Guinea2
Regardfully
Ferd von Mueller.
Flindersia
Ambon Island, Indonesia. Shillinglaw was writing a biography of Matthew Flinders, with whom Robert Brown (1773-1858) had circumnavigated Australia in 1801-3. The work was never published. Flindersia was erected in R. Brown (1814), p. 595.
Species described by M are listed in Muir (1979). The Australian species were named in various numbers of M's Fragmenta; see APNI for details. Flindersia papuana was named in B72.02.01, p. 84.
Please cite as “FVM-80-05-20,” 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