To [William Thiselton-Dyer]1    February 1882

[February 1882]2

 

I make a commencement in sending you some fossil fruits. Perhaps you have no palaeontologic collection in the Kew Museum; in such case give them kindly to any palaeontologists.3 The second decade of fossil fruits4 will soon appear.

1
MS annotations by Thiselton-Dyer: ‘2/82’; 'Ap. 29. 82'. This could have been an enclosure to M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 31 December 1881, or less likely, 31 January 1882.
2
editorial addition.
3
No relevant entry could be found in the Museum Entry Books at Kew.
4
B82.05.02.

Please cite as “FVM-82-02-00,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-02-00