9/6/80
Did I mention to you, dear Mr Shillinglaw, that I added about ten species to the one of the genus Flindersia, established by R Brown?1 Give me timely notice, so that I may write the needful paragraph on this genus for your work.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Flindersia
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. M had already told Shillinglaw about the added species; see M to J. Shillinglaw, 20 May 1880. Species described by M are listed in Muir (1979); Flindersia was erected in R. Brown (1814), p. 595.
Please cite as “FVM-80-06-09,” 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