TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM, SYDNEY.
Memo. from the CURATOR to Baron von Mueller K.C.M.G., FRS
19th Sept: 1892
Dear Baron Mueller,
By this post I send sketch-drawing of Hakea Bakeriana, which can be properly finished after you have examined it and made alterations (if any).1
The matter of a species-name for the Grevillea might stand over for a little if you are agreeable.2 Perhaps if it were called after my Minister3 it might be misunderstood; he might think I wished to curry favour. He is, all the same, a very good man, and bears an honoured name.4 It might be more desirable to give it some name descriptive of the species.
I found it on flat, moist, sandy, barren land 2 or 3 miles as the crow flies from Jervis Bay and at no great elevation, say 100 feet, above the sea. I should require to define the place more accurately by means of a map, as it was not near a township or prominent landmark.
The species may require to be described (at least provisionally) in absence of fruits. It is 11½ miles from a main road & in very rough country. I took a buggy & nearly had a smash. The place is uninhabited & it maybe a long time before I am able to revisit the locality.5
Yours truly,
J. H. Maiden.
I did look for fruits in July, but none were to be seen then.
Hakea Bakeriana
The finished illustration by R. T. Baker accompanying B93.14.03, is plate 30 in the volume; the description cites plate 29, but that is an illustration of Acacia maidenii, described in B93.09.06, where the description cites plate 28.
See J. Maiden to M, 14 September 1892, and J. Maiden to M, 21 September 1892 (in this edition as 92-09-21a).
F. B. Suttor.
F. Suttor was a grandson of George Suttor, one of the first botanical collectors sent by Joseph Banks to NSW.
No species of Grevillea named jointly by M and Maiden has been found.
MS found with a specimen of Grevillea macleayana (MEL 98862). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 22/9/92'. Letter not found. There is a file copy of this letter in the Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
Please cite as “FVM-92-09-19,” 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