To William Thiselton-Dyer   11 August 1893

11/8/93.1

 

The new Acacia, of which a sprig was sent to you lately, dear Dr Dyer, but by an oversight without a label, is the Acacia Jonesii, described by Mr Maiden and myself in the proceedingsof the Linnean Soc. of N.SW. sec. series VIII, 13 plate II,2 which part was recently issued as a memorial volume of the late Sir Will. MacLeay, a near relative of our late friend Sir George M’Leay, and founder and main-sustainer of the L.S. of N.SW. You receive, I believe, this serial regularly.

With regardfullness always

your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

I have to thank you for the regular transmission of your ever important “Kew Bulletin and for the Icones plantarum.3 I subscribe to the Bot Mag4 and have done so since 1857.

I have in a long and emphatic letter appealed to Dr Bancroft senior in Brisbane to interest himself with his powerful influence there for Mr Bailey5 The latter is grateful for my own exertions on his behalf.6

 

Acacia Jonesii

1
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 26. SEP. 93;annotated in black ink by W. Hemsley: Recd. 26 IX 93 / W.B.H. and in red ink by Hemsley: Ackd 28.9.93 (letter not found).
2
B93.14.05.
3
Oliver (1891-5).
4
Curtis’s botanical magazine.
5
Letter not found.
6
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 4 August 1893; Bailey’s position as Queensland’s Government Botanist was being retrenched.

Please cite as “FVM-93-08-11,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-08-11