To William Thiselton-Dyer   1 January 1894

 

Newyears day1894.1

 
 

Only some few lines, dear Dr Dyer, to convey to you and Sir Joseph my best felicitation for the new year.

Then let me thank you for the concession by yourself and Prof Oliver in accepting the drawing of the very rare Darwinia for the Icones at which my Countryman2 is delighted, looking upon himself now as quite a celebrity.3

How strange, - I never learnt of the bestowal, so worthily, of the Linnean Medal on Prof Oliver,4 til last week, and then only from Möller’s Garten Zeitung of Erfurt.5

Kindly convey to him my best felicitation.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Darwinia Schuermanni

1
Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 5. Feb. 94; annotated in pencil: D.O. and in black ink by Joseph Hooker:5/2/94.
2
Clamor Schürmann.
3

Annotated in lead pencil by Daniel Oliver: Darwinia Schuermanni is already on stone, tab. 2303 Ic. Pl., - for the next part. We found it necessary to prepare one figure indepenty. of the drawing sent to us by Sir F.v. Mueller. D.O.

The plate did not appear until May 1894, in Oliver (1891-95), Vol. 24, Part 1. In his commentary Oliver wrote: ‘we find the [ovules] 6 to 8 in number, as they are also represented by Herr Eckert, in an elaborate drawing of the plant communicated by Sir F. v. Mueller’.

4
Presented at the Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Society of London, 24 May 1893 (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1892–1893,p. 18).
5
M ö ller’s deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung , vol. 8, 1893, p. 379.

Please cite as “FVM-94-01-01b,” 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 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-01-01b