Bathurst2 Augst 19h. 1883.
The Baron von Müller
My dear Baron
I am home for a short time doing duty for one of our ministers who is at present in the old country. I have just received a letter from Dr Woolls concerning a specimen of a plant I forwarded to him a short time ago, and which he sent to you for a reference.3 The specimen was not from the Lachlan4 as he imagined; it was collected by myself last October, in one of the gullies near the Dromedary mountain on the south coast.5 It has been lying along with other specimens from that quarter until I was mounting them the other day — & found I did not know it. I forwarded it to Dr Woolls along with some forage plants I received from the Lachlan district, hence Dr Woolls supposed it came from that quarter. I have been very busy for the least6 four months, and have not been able to be out of town to do anything in the way of collecting. I hope to spend a day or two on the mountains on my return to Sydney. If I find any rare mosses &c I shall be most happy to forward them.
If I can manage it I hope to pay a visit to the South Coast about November; we are about to begin to build a church at Newtown,7 and that will take up some time in the way of collecting money &c.
I remain my dear Baron
Yours sincerely
Robert Collie
Please cite as “FVM-83-08-19,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/83-08-19