To William Thiselton-Dyer   4 July 1892

4/7/921

 

Let me offer my best felicitation, dear Dr Dyer, on the occasion of her gracious Majesty having conferred on you the dignity of C.I.E.,2 so well merited. As you are still far from the autumn of your life, you will be able to enjoy this honor for many years.

Always regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Kindly mention3 to Sir Joseph Hooker that the true Pterostylis concinna has been found in Tasmania this spring by Mr Rodway.4

 

Pterostylis concinna

1
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 8. Aug. 92; annotated in black ink by John Baker:JGB 8/8/92; in red by William Hemsley:Ackd. 10.8.92 and Sir JDH; and in red-ink by Thiselton-Dyer:And 12/8/92 (letters not found).
2
Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire; Thiselton-Dyer was appointed in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 24 May 1892 (Times, 25 May 1892, p. 10, col. b).
3
The sentence has been altered by deletion and interlining. M did not delete that after mention but the word has been editorially deleted to preserve the sense of the altered passage.
4
Annotated in black ink opposite the postscript by John Baker: I have told Sir JDH/JGB.

Please cite as “FVM-92-07-04b,” 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 16 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-07-04b