8th April, 81
Sir
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd ultimo,1 relative to your book on select plants for industrial culture,2 and to inform you that Mr. Goyder has obtained a copy of the work in question from the Surveyor General of Sydney, also that Messrs. Winneke3 and Cornish's explorations were sent to you before your letter of the 3rd ultimo was received.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
W. C. Gosse
Dep. Surveyor General
Baron Von Mueller
Letter not found.
G. Goyder to M, 26 February 1881, had requested a copy of the first edition of M's Select plants. In his reply, M to G. Goyder, 3 March 1881 (in this edition as 81-03-03a), M advised that a NSW edition (B81.01.04) had recently been published.
Winnecke (1884). At the end of 1880, W. H. Cornish had based his surveying camp at Parracherna, near Coopers Creek, but no published account or survey has been found concerning that area; the most recent found was Cornish (1880), republished in many newspapers.
Please cite as “FVM-81-04-08,” 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