6/7/881
By this post, dear Mr Dyer, you will receive a parcel of ferns, collected during his last travels in S. E. New Guinea by poor Mr C Hartmann, who succumbed to fever in that terrible clime.2 This sad occurrence accounts for the imperfect state of the collection; but it is nearly half of all; the other portion I sent to Mr Carruthers, who is now working on Mr Forbes's ferns. As you meet Mr Carruthers often you can of course arrange with him about the naming. Absolute novelty seems hardly among these ferns, unless one Alsophila. My retaining nothing here, shows my disinterestedness; but I asked Mr C., to send me back a little of any rare or new species.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Very busy for Exhibition now.3
Alsophila
Please cite as “FVM-88-07-06,” 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/88-07-06