From Frederick Bailey1    17 October 1889

Colonial Botanists Office.

Department of Agriculture,

Brisbane, October 17th 1889

Baron Ferd von Mueller K C M G &c

Government Botanist Melbourne

Victoria

 

Dear Baron

I have just received a letter from that excellent mycologist Dr M. C. Cooke of London, — In which he refers to publishing a monograph of our Australian Fungi but as he tells me that he has also addressed to you2 a similar letter I need not quote its contents. It would be of very great advantage to each of the colonies for a work of this kind to be published and no one is so well qualified for the work as Dr Cooke. You will I hope see what can be done for it by Victoria you being the head of the botanical world in Australasia and if you would then form some plan I could see what help could be rendered by Queensland I should recommend that each of the Colonies agreed to take a certain number of copies at a given price say 30/- each — I would like you however to make the first move in the matter. — To the Horticulturist & Agriculturalist such a work is of the highest importance So let us hope it will be carried out —

Yours very truly

Fredk Manson Bailey3

1
MS annotation by M: 'Recd & answ 21/10/89'. Letter not found.
2
See M. Cooke to M, 1 September 1889.
3
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 G. Massee to M, 7 May 1888 (in this edition as 88-05-07b), G. Massee to M, 22 April 1889 and G. Massee to M, 12 August 1889.

Please cite as “FVM-89-10-17a,” 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 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/89-10-17a