To William Thiselton-Dyer   4 August 1886

4/8/86

 

I have to thank you for an excellent suppy1 of fresh fruits of Chamaerops Ritchieana, dear Mr Dyer, which - as their vitality seems well retained - will doubtless add to the treasures of many a Garden here.

I send you a few fruits just fresh received of the subtropic Central Australian Livistona; it may be L. Leichhardtii, not L. Mariae of West Australia, which has larger but also globular fruits. The Central Austral. species is geographically quite isolated.

I wonder, how my giant Todea looked at the Exhibition; you never mentioned in your letters. I trust, that the models of Crinum flaccidum and Telopea oreades still turned up. The latter will show well the differences from T. truncata.2

Regardfully

your

Fer von Mueller

 

Chamaerops Ritchieana

Crinum flaccidum

Livistona Leichhardtii

Livistona Mariae

Telopea oreades

Telopea truncata

Todea

1
supply?
2
M exhibited these wax models and 36 of ‘Victorian Fungs’ in Class XI, ‘General application of the arts of drawing and modelling’ at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. The modeller is not named. (Official Catalogue, second edition, p. 188).

Please cite as “FVM-86-08-04,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-08-04