To William Thiselton-Dyer   10 April 1887

Easterday/1887.1

 

Several letters from you, dear Mr Dyer, have just been kindly sent me by the Governor.2 Best thanks for all goodness. The Cordyceps Taylori was described many years ago by Berkeley,3 and as you have the Rev Gentleman’ collections at Kew, it seemed to me unnecessary, to forward one of the few specimens to Kew also.4

However as you wish to possess this fung from the new locality likewise, I send you the best of three specimens left5 If I do not write much for some weeks to come, it will be, because I shall have to hurry part I of the “Key”6 through the press.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

It is very generous of Mr Baker, to let me share in the authority of the new Trichomanes.7

What a rich display of remarkable forms in the new parts of the Icones.8

I always subscribe for the Office; so your presentation copy remains in my bid9 of private library; if not given away to encourage further searches for ferns &c10

 

Cordyceps Taylori

Trichomanes

1
Easter Day was on 10 April in 1887.
2
Letters not found.
3
Berkeley (1843), pp. 209-11, as Spaaeria Taylori.
4
M had sent a specimen to the Gardeners’ chronicle, where Smith (1887) included an illustration.
5
See J. Price to M, 19 July 1886; the specimens sent to the Gardeners’ chronicleand promised for Kew probably came from Price.
6
B88.11.02.
7
Named under joint authority as Gymnogramme sayeri (see B87.14.01, p. 163); M later listed it in B89.13.12 under Grammatis sayeri (p. 234), and Trichomanes sayeri (p. 230).
8
i.e. Hooker’s icons plantarum. What a rich ... the Icones. is marked with a blue line in the margin.
9
bit?
10
Annotated below text: by J. Jackson, Noted J.R.J. 31/5/87; by J. Baker, JGB 2/6/87 and by W. Thiselton-Dyer, And 26.6.87 [letter not found].

Please cite as “FVM-87-04-10a,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-04-10a