[Mr. C. Hartmann, the botanist and horticultural collector, has, we are sorry to say, succumbed to fever contracted in New Guinea. He died, as we learn from Baron von Müeller, in Queensland, on his return to his home. He and Mr. G. Hunter were the first who brought together a number of native tribes, before always at war with each other, and induced them to act as carriers of the luggage of the travellers at some portions of the Owen Stanley Ranges; and thus they also paved the way for the advent of Mr. Abree1 by Messrs. Cuthbertson and Sayer. At Towamba,2 in Queensland, Mr. C. Hartmann had a business as a vendor of plants and seeds, and for a long series of years he was interested in obtaining specimens of native plants for the elucidation of the local flora. In former years he had a good repute in Germany as a skilful grower of Orchids. The Sarcochilus Hartmanni (S. rubricentrum, Fitzgerald) was discovered by him, and at once named and described in his honour.3]
Sarcochilus Hartmanni
Sarcochilus rubricentrum
Typesetter's error for ascent of Mt. Obree?
Typesetter's error for Toowoomba.
By M, in B74.10.01, p. 248.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Mr. Hartmann', Gardeners' chronicle, 28 January 1888, p. 114. The letter is dated to December 1887 as the latest that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue. Hartmann died in Brisbane on 4 December 1887.
Please cite as “FVM-87-12-00h,” 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