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From Arthur King to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 Dec 1881

King & Cunningham

Stock & Station Agents

67 Bourke Street West.

Melbourne Decr 12th 1881

Baron von Mueller KCMG.

Dear Sir

I sent a flower to you by my gardener yesterday; as he wanted to go for an outing; and I now send a tracing1 of the bulb from the root end of which the flower stem springs there are 5 or 6 bulbs on the plant I have. I have sent a small parcel containing the leaf which grows from the end of the bulb as indicated. This plant was procured by Lieut Goldfinch of HMS "Emerald" at "Boneta"2 one of the Solomon Islands and sent to me with several other interesting plants orchids &c the names of which I should be glad to get from you, if you could come over to see me on Saturday afternoon I should be very pleased to see you & to show you my plants.

Yours very truly,

Arthur S King

Many thanks for the book on Papuan plants3

The parcel was left at Argus Hotel

Excuse this scrawl for I am writing during business

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1

Tracing annotated 'Eria Kingii' in M's hand. 81-12-12b_image01.jpg

2

Banika (i.e. present-day Mbanika)?

3

B77.02.01 et seq.

4

MS found with specimen of Eria kingii (MEL 112566). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 17/12/81'. Letter not found.

Please cite as “FVM-81-12-12b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-12-12b