[Von dem korrespondierenden Mitgliede, Herrn Baron Ferdinand von Müller waren zwei Photographieen eingesandt: 1. eine Ansicht der Palme: Ptychosperma Alexandrae; 2. eine Ansicht eines Flusses in Australien, dessen Oberfläche ganz bedeckt war mit Blättern und Blüten der Nymphaea gigantea Hook.*)]
[Two photographs were sent by the corresponding member Baron Ferdinand von Müller: 1. A view of the palm Ptychosperma Alexandrae. 2. A view of a river in Australia the surface of which was completely covered with leaves and flowers of the Nymphaea gigantea Hook.1]
Nymphaea gigantea
Ptychosperma Alexandrae
A footnote at this point draws attention to the photograph of the waterlilies having become lost while being passed around at the meeting, and appeals for its return. M sent an apparently similar photograph to England some years earlier; see M to the Gardeners' chronicle, December 1893 (in this edition as 93-12-00c).
Letter not found. The text given here is item 14 in a report of the meeting of the Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues held on 25 July 1895 in Berlin (Gartenflora, vol. 44 (1895), p. 445. The letter is dated to early June as the latest that it could have been sent to have been discussed at the meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-95-06-00f,” 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