1/10/93.
Best thanks for your kind letter,1 dear Mr Deane, and the offer of sending on to me the plants from the N.W.2 By all means do so; because I could then quickly ascertain, whether anything remarkable occurs among the specimens. If so, the Senders could be early informed by you, which would timely encourage them to proceed with gathering specimens3
I thank you much for the kind allusion to myself before your L.S.4 in reference to your plants brought from the Barrier-Ranges5
Do I rightly anticipate, that you will copy extant descriptions of the orchids for the new fascicle of Mr Fitzgeralds work? If I further know, what sort of notes you have for any of them, I shall know what is wanted from myself, and would early furnish the data which additionally seem necessary and return the roll of lithograms.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Letter not found.
Deane may have offered to send specimens in response to M's comment in M to H. Deane, 23 September 1893: 'New localities may probably also be obtained from me, if I know which are those, recorded by you'. It may, however, have been an offer to send new sets collected by Deane.
See also M to H. Deane, 14 October 1893.
At the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW on 27 September 1893, 'Mr Henry Deane showed an interesting collection of sixty-six plants collected by him a month ago at Broken Hill and Tarrawingee, and determined by Baron von Mueller'. See Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, ser. 2, vol. 8 (1893), p. 329.
NSW.
Please cite as “FVM-93-10-01,” 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