4/12/85
Let me thank you, dear Mr Turner, for your goodness in sending me the "town & country" with your important notes on native grasses.1 I beg of you particularly, to continue these sendings, so that I may have your observations all before me; they can be utilized for a new edition of my select plants in 1886,2 under your name That of 1885 is just printed.3 I only a few days ago reported to the Royal Commission of Rural industries4 here, how desirable it was, that the best native grasses, fodder-shrubs and saltbushes should be regularly resown on the holdings or runs.
With best respects
your
Ferd von Mueller
Turner contributed a number of articles on Australian grasses to the Australian town and country journal, commencing in 1885.
There was no 1886 edition; the next edition in English was B88.12.01.
B85.12.03.
Royal Commission on Vegetable Products, 1885-93. M's first appearance before the Royal Commission was on 19 January 1886, when he appears to have been questioned on a long written submission that included this advice, but that is dated after the present letter to Turner; see M to J. Levien, 28 December 1885. See also Frost & S. Harvey (1997).
MS annotation: 'From Baron Von Mueller.'
Please cite as “FVM-85-12-04,” 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