To William Thiselton-Dyer   16 July 1894

16/7/941

 

It is very gratifying to me, dear Dr Dyer, to receive an other part of the grand series of the “icones plantarum”,2 which brings again a number of rare plants before us all, which otherwise most of us would only know from description

I am beholden to Prof Oliver and yourself for giving also the Darwinia Schuermanni a place - for otherwise very few would ever know what it was like, for it is sharing the fate of the Dodo.3

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Darwinia Schuermanni

1
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 20 AUG 94.
2
Volume 24, part 1 of Oliver (1891-5) was published in May 1894.
3
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 January 1894. A drawing of D. scheurmanni was published in Oliver (1891-5), vol. 24, plate 2303.

Please cite as “FVM-94-07-16,” 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 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-07-16