From Frederick Bailey   8 October 1883

Queensland Museum.

Brisbane October 8th 1883

Dear Baron Mueller

I have just received from Mr Moore of Sydney his paper on the Macrozamia¹ I wish you would let me know if you had any hand with it or is your paper on the whole order likely to come out soon. I always expected that you would give us the order worked out with your inimitable carefulness it is waiting for you and well worthy of your labors. By the bye Pink² some time back sent you a cone which a person gave him from Mount Tambourine³ I saw it just before he sent it and told him he had better send it to you and also try to obtain a male spike and send — I have a male spike of the one at Springsure⁴ that you have named M. Moorei. I will send you. I have not done so before on account of having been promised another species but as that does not turn up I will send what I have —

Your much obliged

F M Bailey

P.S. I heard from our friend The Rev J E Tenison Woods at Java. I dont know if I told you or that he had written to tell you that he was going to pay a visit to his friend Governor Weld of Singapore

FMB

Macrozamia Moorei