29 October [188]51
Dear Baron
I have to thank you for your two letters of [18]th July and [8]th August.2 which I recd this week on my return from my summers [work] in the [north]. The seeds of [...] and the copy of your Census of Australian plants3 were also recd with thanks. We have not seen the Detroit edition to which you refer.4 Where can it be had? The seed I am giving over to one [...] gardeners who [I am sure will] take an interest in growing them [...]5 I will let you know the result. Macoun is at work [at] Part II of his catalogue6 & I hope it will be printed during the winter. We will be glad to give you the [notes] you ask for in reference to industrial and [...] of Canadian plants. I hope to [embody] the information in a descriptive catalogue to accompany the exhibit we are now preparing for the London Colonial Exhibition next year. As regards exchanges I may say that at present owing to lack of space, our collections [...] [...] foreign countries except in Conchology & if you could send us any Australian shells we would send you specimens of any Canadian plants [...] [...] [...]. Our herbm contains many duplicates & includes almost every known species from British Colombia to Cape Breton. I never hear from or of McCoy7 [...] Give him my kind regards when you see him as also to Newbery8 & any other of my old friends in Victoria.
Believe me
Very sincerely your
Alfred R. C. Selwyn
Baron Ferdd Von Müller &c &c
Melbourne Victoria Australia
editorial addition.
Letters not found.
B83.03.04.
B84.13.22.
About four words illegible.
Macoun (1883-1902).
Frederick McCoy.
James Cosmo Newbery.
Letter not found. MS is a wet-press file copy in which the ink has subsequently spread into the paper, making readings uncertain or impossible in a number of places.
Please cite as “FVM-85-10-29a,” 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