To Odoardo Beccari   13 March 1890

90/3/13

By this mail, dear Dr Beccari, I have posted to you the only specimen of an only palm, received from Sir William Macgregor among the dried plants, gathered by his Excellency on his tour up the Fly-River1 Will you be so kind, to send a few fragments back for the Government Herbarium here, after you have examined the species

Three iron cylinders, filled with methylized alcohol, and sent for collecting purposes by me, will be this week emptied of the botanic specimens, contained therein. Should palms be among them they will be also sent to you

You will have received my essay on Governor Macgregors alpine or high lands plants some months ago.2

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

Beccari (1908), p. 494, gives the habitat of Calamus macgregorii as ‘British New Guinea, where discovered on the Fly River in 1890 by Sir William Macgregor.The monograph was intended for Malesia, but the subsidy towards the publication of this was withdrawn by the Istituto di Studi Superiori of Florence (Beccari [1908], p. i). According to Moore (1970), pp. 91-2, Martelli (1935) includes a description of Rhopaloblaste MacgregoriiBeccari made from a fragmentary specimen ‘collected by Sir W. Macgregor from the Fly River’.
B89.13.11.

Please cite as “FVM-90-03-13,” 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 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/90-03-13