To William Thiselton-Dyer1    8 July 1885

8/7/85.

 

I have to acknowledge, dear Mr Dyer, from you t[he]2 receipt of a set of Dr [Gupp]y’s plants, for which I am much obliged and for which present I will also send my grateful acknowledgement to the Doctor.3 Y[ou] asked me some time ag[o for] a piece of the scented W.A. Sandal-wood;4 this I procured, and I now offer in book-form. For the London Exhibition of next year a small library of such books is under preparation, but Victoria is not rich in wood and I shall not be able to muster more than about 100 volumes, including [C...] woods from the other [c]olonies Perhaps it may be intended to form a Colonial Museum in London, for which then probably the Exhib. collections would be claimed; if this is not the case, your e[s]tablishment ought to have no difficulty to secure the whole vegetable exhibits.

Best thanks for various prints sent by you.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

The extreme pressure of work for exhibition, exploration in New Guinea also other extras this year, render it impossible to go on with distributing and selecting more spare specimens; more however shall follow so soon as leisure permits.

I can get no more specimens of Asplenium Robinsonii.5

Best thanks for Bucklandia seeds.6

 

Asplenium Robinsonii

Bucklandia

1
Annotated by Thiselton-Dyer: Specimen recd. Thanked 24/8/85 (letter not found).
2
editorial addition: page torn. All following [ ] have the same meaning.
3
See M to J. Hooker, 10 December 1884.
4
Request not found, but see notes to M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, April 1884 (in this edition as 84-04-00).
5
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 April 1884.
6
The postscript is written on a smaller sheet of paper, f. 153, and may not have been part of this letter.

Please cite as “FVM-85-07-08a,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-07-08a