From George Massee   12 August 1889

Royal Herbarium, Kew,

12/8/98.1

To Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., &c. &c

 

I am in receipt of your last letter,2, & send as you desire, a receipt for figures of fungi done.3 The arrangement was at the rate of two pounds for twenty specimens, so the receipt will be right for the figures done including the batch forwarded along with this letter.

Dr. Cooke is not inclined to undertake any more work in the way of books on fungi, he is now old & wants rest, but if you think proper, I will undertake the presentation of an octavo vol. on the genera of Victorian Fungi with coloured Figures of the genera; if you care for this I will calculate the number of plates required to contain a figure of each genus, or each section, in large genera — & wd4 let you know the approximate cost — Would you have more than one figure on a plate if more could be got on? Perhaps a first volume containing all the Basidiomycetes (= Hymenomycetes & Gastromycetes) would be well for a start.

I am at present working at the Myxomycetes, & if you care for it, I shall be very pleased to prepare a "Monograph of the Australian Myxomycetes", & give you the manuscript quite free of charge for publication in some of your Scientific Proceedings or wherever you might think proper, as a fragment towards a complete Mycologic Flora of Australia. I will not send any more drawings until advised by you.

Yours truly

George Massee.

 

Basidiomycetes

Gastromycetes

Hymenomycetes

Myxomycetes

1
Error for 1889.
2
Letter not found.
3
MS is contained 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 (in this edition as 89-10-17a), G. Massee to M, 7 May 1888 (in this edition as 88-05-07b), and G. Massee to M, 22 April 1889.
4
would.

Please cite as “FVM-89-08-12,” 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/89-08-12