M has left a space for Forbes's given name. The correspondent was almost certainly Archibald Forbes, 'the famous war correspondent', who was on a lecture tour of Australia and who was given a civic dinner by the Mayor of Melbourne on 3 June 1882 at which M was one of the guests (Argus, 5 June 1882, p. 4).
The work being presented has not been identified.
MS found in Herbarium collections at MEL, without details of the specimen. MS is evidently a draft; it has been folded to make a specimen envelope.
Please cite as “FVM-82-06-00c,” 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