18/8/91
It is very kind of you, dear Miss Henley, to send the new lot of fungs, which were very acceptable. Let me solicit, that you will continue collecting other sorts as there they may successively show themselves. Martin's Creek1 is quite a new locality for plants; so if your brother will kindly gather all sorts of plants, even the smallest weeds and aquatics, he is sure to discover many rarities and perhaps even novelties, for which he will get full credit in my works. As in transit any book, containing dried plants, might suffer, it would be far preferable, if you sent numbered duplicates; you could best yourself then enter the names from the list emanating thus.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
There are seven specimens collected in 1891 or 1892 at MEL attributed to S. Henley, all from Upper Flinders River, Qld, to the east of Martin's Creek, a gold-mining area near Cloncurry. One of Maria's brothers was Sydney Henley (1869-1942).
Please cite as “FVM-91-08-18,” 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