To William Thiselton-Dyer   31 January 1882

31/1/82

 

I hoped, dear Mr Dyer, that I should be able to send you the photogram of the large fruit of Macrozamia Moorei by this post, but it is not quite ready; it will however come to you by next mail, as well as photographic illustrations of the male amentum of that species and ♂ & ♀ of M. spiralis.1

Some other material is accumulating, but the species occur only in wide distances from here, some locally only, others in places out of all regular lines of communication. Therefore not even with money the getting can be forced. Well, "Rome was also not built in one day," and we must regard this affair concerning the Cycads a matter of time. I hope however to get for you, what at the present stage of colonisation can be got, in the course of 1882.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Macrozamia Moorei

Macrozamia spiralis

1
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 October 1881 and 16 February 1882 (in this edition as 82-02-16b).

Please cite as “FVM-82-01-31,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-01-31