To William Thiselton-Dyer   2 May 1892

2/5/92¹

In your last communication, dear Dr Dyer,² it is desired by Mr Baker, that I should be more explicit in reference to localities when labelling specimens. I am apt to forget, (I admit), that in my geographic position and exploratory career, I am more conversant with the geography of these southern lands, than many else can be. But I have always chosen on the labels names only of leading features, some dating from Cooks and Flinders time. When sending successively Papuan plants, I usually wrote that they were from New Guinea, but I will in future mark them so specially on the labels also. Mount Warning is in N.S Wales. In the “Australian Handbook,” issued annually by Gordon & Gotsch, 6 Bride Street, Ludgate-Circus, London E.C. a cheap volume of great value, quickly information on Australian localities can be obtained.³ In the vol for1885⁴ likely still purchaseable is moreover a map-index of great extent for Australia.

Mt. Bartle-Frere is in North Queensland, it is one of the highest mountains in tropic. Australia. Should unexpectedly any further difficulty arise, perhaps just a line or two to one of your geographic friends in Burlington-House would solve the riddle.⁵

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

As regards quotations of senders of fungs, they ought I think to be recorded by a fixed plan, in justice to all parties in the new work.⁶