From Frederick Bailey   27 April 1892

Colonial Botanist

Office1

April 27 [189]2

Dear Baron

Only just a line to apologize for not acknowledging with thanks the several things I have received from you since my return.2 But really I have had so much back work to pull up with that I have been at work both night & day. Your Chenopodiaceae3 is a very useful publication but so are all your works. Please accept my thanks for the things sent and believe me ever yours very truly

F. M. Bailey

1
Brisbane.
2
Bailey had been to the Hobart meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, after which he briefly visited Adelaide before leaving on 1 February 1892 on the train to Melbourne (Adelaide observer, 6 February 1892, p. 37).
3
i.e. M’s Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (B89.13.04, B90.13.14, B91.13.24). Bailey was using the order name Chenopodiaceae preferred by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, pp. 150 ff.; M gave priority to the Linnean term Salsolaceae of 1738.

Please cite as “FVM-92-04-27a,” 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 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-04-27a