From Maitland Brown1    24 August 1889

From Geraldton, WA. Dated Tele[grap]h Branch G.P.O. Au 24 892

Telegram for Baron von Mueller, Govt Botanist3

 
 

Several Splendid healthy Verticordia plants will be forwarded tomorrow to Government Resident Albany to await your disposal they are of the Cream Colored Variety from near Geraldine4 Murchison

 

(Signature) Maitland Brown Government Resident5

 

Verticordia

1
MS is a telegram that was enclosed with M to W. Thistelton-Dyer, 28 August 1889.
2
The date is a postmark stamp; part of it is indistinct.
3
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 7. Oct. 89.
4
About 120 km north of Geraldton, WA.
5
The remainder of the printed text on the telegraph form is not reproduced here.

Please cite as “FVM-89-08-24,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-08-24