To Annie Walker   27 May 1893

 

27/5/93

Your kind letter, dear Miss Walker, has reached me,1 and so also come the splendid pictures of fungs, through the kindness of Miss Cole.2 It is most praiseworthy, that you at once exerted yourself in this respect after your return.

Let me also express my best thanks for the elegant volume, presented so graciously to me with lines of remembrance.3 What a beautiful book for festive presents in your colony, to awaken an interest in the native flowers.

As regards the fung-paintings, do you require them back? In the Agaricus-genus over thousand well marked species are recorded, so that I like to send your painted drawings under your honored name to a specialist in Europe, who may then wish to keep them.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

I received the specimens of Agaricus also, and have dried them carefully. The Loranthus is L. celastroides, Sieber.

 

Agaricus

Loranthus celastroides

1
Letter not found.
2
Margaret Ward-Cole.
3
The copy of Walker (1887) in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is inscribed: ‘To Baron Sir F. von Müeller K.C.M.G. with grateful remembrance Annie F. Walker Rhodes. Ryde. New South Wales. May the 18th 1893’.

Please cite as “FVM-93-05-27b,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-05-27b