To William Thiselton-Dyer   28 March 1882

28/3/82.

 

I have two more species of Cycas-Amenta ♂ for you at the Photographers, dear Mr Dyer; but they had decayed on the long way, and will make bad illustrations. You shall have these photograms by next post, also one of ♂ & ♀ Macrozamia Fraseri. I will try to forward a ♂ of the latter ipsa natura1 by this post, which Mr Forest kindly sent on my request.2 So you see, that your forthcoming opus3 is not forgotten.

Both last evening late & the evening before I had as Chairman in the one case and as Patron in the other, to deliver speeches in Social (not Socialists!) meetings; so, — that has taken much of the time away, wanted for the mail, & I must therefore be brief.

Perhaps I get away to Kew by this mail the 8th Euc. Decade4 & the 11th vol. of the fragmenta; but I am not sure about the binding being done in time.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.

 

In the 11th vol over 3500 evascular Acotyledoneae are recorded.5

 

Acotyledoneae

Cycas

Macrozamia Fraseri

 
1
its natural self.
2
Letter not found. See also M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 15 March 1882 (in this edition as 82-03-15c).
3
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 10 September 1881 (in this edition as 81-09-10a).
4
B82.13.17.
5
In the separately paginated Supplementumto vol. 11 of the Fragmenta,M published 'Indices Plantarum acotyledonarum complectens', comprising contributions by specialists on the various groups, with some additional comments and listings by himself.

Please cite as “FVM-82-03-28,” 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/82-03-28