To Edward Holmes   22 January 1895

22/1/95

 

It is most kind of you, dear Mr Holmes, to send me your highly valuable new fascicle of Algs, brought out in such an elegant form, and containing so many rare species.1 I will endeavour to make an adequate return sending early; but I have myself made no collecting journeys since several years, and have also no means to keep any collector in the field. If you deem it worth of the time to make out a list of Australian Algs wanting in your own collection, on the chance of my being able to supply them, I will see whether I can spare them from the typic set here, without spoiling the authentic records of localities. Real spare-specimens I have none, as such are always at once utilized for foreign interchanges.

I am most grateful for the regular sending of your important pharmaceutic journal.2

From your friends now at Mildura on the Murray-River3 I did not hear, since they went there. Let us hope that their best expectations are realized. This summer had hitherto here less hot days for the corresponding time, than any of the 47 summers spent by me in Australia. So your friends got easily acclimatized.

With regardful remembrance

your Ferd. von Mueller

 
Probably a fascicle of Holmes’s Algae britannicae rariores exsiccatae, twelve fascicles of which were distributed, 1883-1910.
The journal issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain became The pharmaceutical journal in 1895, continuing the Pharmaceutical journal and transactions(of the Pharmaceutical Society).
Friends not identified.

Please cite as “FVM-95-01-22,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-01-22