22/2/86
This time, dear Professor Meehan, I send you some xylographic illustrations, made on various woods of New South Wales, where Mr Augustus Rudder has instituted these experiments.1 Perhaps you could show these at the Academy of natural sciences, where they may be of interest, especially as some of these trees are already in culture as well in California as in your southern states. [They]2 are indicative of the value of allied species of woods. Mr Rudder deserves every praise for these efforts in that particular direction. In connection with this I may observe, that I have urged repeatedly trials with the several Buxaceae of West India for wood-engraving. Mr Rudder’s present experiments are in connection with the wood-specimens, to be shown by New South Wales at the forth coming London Exhibition3
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I hope to send you soon my illustrations of the Myoporinae, 76 species on as many plates, all of horticultural value4
Your excellent monthly5 is always most welcome.
Buxaceae
Myoporinae
See A. Rudder to M, 14 August 1885 and A. Rudder to M, 1 November 1885.
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At the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London 1886, the NSW Minister for Mines showed, in class 46b, Indigenous timber and other forest products, ‘Woods considered suitable for engraving, prepared for the Engraver, and with Engravings thereon to show their adaptability for the purpose’ (Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886), p. 172). A list of the species used is in New South Wales Commission to Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886), pp 220-21.
B86.08.05. In addition to publications, M regularly sent herbarium specimens: see for example, M to Asa Gray, 20 December 1871; and Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 39, 1887, p 435, where the Academy records in its list of additions to its museum: 'Baron F. von Müller, Melbourne, Australia; through Thomas Meehan, 471 species Australian plants, mostly new to the collection'.
Meehan was editor of Gardeners monthly and horticulturist (Philadelphia).
Please cite as “FVM-86-02-22,” 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