To William Thiselton-Dyer   21 June 1892

21/6/92.1

 

Your letter of May 6th is just to hand, dear Dr Dyer,2 and as in 3 hours the weekly mail closes I hasten to say, that the account for Dr Henry’s plants was passed by me on to treasury here already on the 9th Oct, 1891, to the amount of £22.10/- with a written request that the payment should be made through the Agent General to you.3 I will in the course of the day cause enquiry to be made at the treasury here, whether possibly by some form-error the sending was never effected, and in that (not likely) case will see to the immediate despatch of the amount. So far as my establishment is concerned, the amount is beyond my control. The matter is monetarily all right, though I regret the delay which unexpectedly has arisen. I will by next weeks post communicate to you the result of the enquiry.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Herewith specimens of Corysanthes bicalcarata from Tasmania. 4 Perhaps you like to show them to Sir Joseph, who is sure to take still an interest in the earliest fields of his laurels.

 

Corysanthes bicalcarata

Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 7. Jul 92; annotated in black ink across the stamp by John Baker:JGB 17/7/92 and in red ink by William Hemsley:Ackd 28.7.92 [letter not found].
Letter not found.
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 2 July 1891 (in this edition as 91-07-02a).
See L. Rodway to M, 10 June 1892.

Please cite as “FVM-92-06-21,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-06-21