From George Massee1    22 April 1889

Royal Herbarium Kew

April 22nd 1889,

To Baron von Mueller,

 

Enclosed is a second consignment of drawings of Australian fungi,2 drawn from Australian specimens with one exception. I thought it would be best to draw all the Australian species belonging to a single family, & have done so in the present instance with the Myxogasteres. Perhaps you will say if you approve of this plan & I will then next do all the Discomycetes. I should be glad to prepare Monographs of the various Australian families at a very reasonable price & send you the manuscript for publication in some of your scientific journals.

I quite approve of your suggestion as to the method of paying for the drawings.

Post office order should be made for the post office, Kew, Surrey.

Yours very truly

George Massee

 

Discomycetes

Myxogasteres

1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 16/6/89'. Letter not found.
2
MS is filed with a bundle of letters to M about the publication of M. C. Cooke's Handbook of Australian fungi (1892). The letters are inside a folded sheet annotated by M: 'Drawings of Fungs by G. Massee 1889.' No drawings found. See also M. Cooke to M, 1 September 1889, F. Bailey to M, 17 October 1889, G. Massee to M, 7 May 1888 (in this edition as 88-05-07b), and G. Massee to M, 12 August 1889.

Please cite as “FVM-89-04-22,” 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/89-04-22