From Frederick Bailey   27 October 1886

Brisbane

Oct. 27th 1886

Dear Baron

Please accept my thanks for your excellent Lithographic monograph of Myoporinae.1 It makes one wish for more such works.

Your much obliged friend

F. M. Bailey

 

Your note re the Melaleucae was too late for the plant was given in my first Occasional Paper2 the only way now to do is3 to correct it in the next about to be printed or leave it as it is for a time and we might obtain better specimens

FMB

 

I have heard nothing about this Mr Hooker except the notice in the paper4 but is5 I do meet him will give him your message

 

Melaleuca

 
1
B86.13.21.
2
Melaleuca lysicephala, described under the names of M and Bailey in Bailey (1886b), p. 2;  no further Occassional Paper has been found. M's note has not been found, but in  Bailey (1888a), p. 24,  the species was transferred to Agonis.
3
sic.
4
The appointment of Joseph Hooker's son Brian by the Queensland Government as Mineralogical Lecturer was widely reported in the Queensland press in early October 1886; see, for example, Brisbane courier, 9 October 1886, p. 5.
5
if?

Please cite as “FVM-86-10-27,” 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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-10-27