1/11/92.
D. [G]. Martin Esqr. F.R.H.S.,
Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
I feel obliged, dear Mr Martin, for your promise to procure for me an other specimen of the Homeria,1 and hope, that it will be in good flower. The one, before received, had the flowers too much shrivelled for determining exactly the name of the species, but I doubt it to be H. collina, as it is called in the Australasian. It […]2
Homeria collina
See M to D. Martin, 17 September 1892.
An unknown amount of text missing.
MS is in M’s hand and is evidently the first page of a longer letter. It is annotated ‘scripsit F. v. Mueller’ [written by F.v. Mueller]. It is seemingly unconnected with the specimen label in M’s hand with which it is currently associated: ‘New Guinea | Regarded as new by Dr G. King Sent to him 1892’. The label has been annotated in another hand, ‘Ameranth’, and in yet another hand, ‘handschrift F. v. Mueller’ [handwriting F. v. Mueller].
Please cite as “FVM-92-11-01,” 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