From James Keys1    26 September 1888

Central Schools

Bundaberg2

26th Sep. 1888

Baron Mueller,

I have the honor to forward you, at the request of Mr F. Kilner of this town, a packet of Sea weed collected by me during the past few months from our coast and from the Burnett river — As it is my first essay at Collecting in this branch of Botany, I trust you will kindly overlook any defects in the way of preserving the specimens. I fear also that I have more than once given the same plant under a different number — but I thought it best to keep separate any forms that appear to differ in shape, color, or habitat, even when I felt pretty certain the difference in shape and color was due to the different degree of maturity of the plant.

I do most earnestly hope that you may find something of interest among them. Certainly, the collecting of them has afforded me many an agreeable hour.3

I am

Sir

Your very Obedient Servant

James Keys

1
MS annotations by M: 'N.11 Leveillea Schimperi Decaisne N.82 Halophila ovalis' and 'Answ. 6/10/88'. Letter not found.
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Qld.
3
See also M to J. Agardh, 5 October 1888, and J. Agardh to M, undated (in this edition as 88-11-00). For Agardh’s identifications of Keys’ specimens, see J. Agardh to M, undated (in this edition as 89-00-00b).

Please cite as “FVM-88-09-26,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/88-09-26