To William Thiselton-Dyer   24 February 1896

24/2/961

 

By this weeks mail, dear Dr Dyer, I am sending you about 18 species of ferns but in poor fragmentary specimens. They came from a Collector in British New Guinea, whose travels I largely supported by my private means.2 These ferns give a new Papuan locality, so that thus far they will be of interest to the Kew collection. They do not seem however to contain anything, that we not already got from New Guinea.

With best greeting your

Ferd von Mueller

 

25/2/96

 

A second box was unpacked and gave 26 additional fern series, nothing probably of importance, except the means for recording additional localities.3

 
1
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 30.MAR.96, and annotated in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. with list 31.3.96 (neither list nor letter found).
2
William Fitzgerald? See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 March 1896 (in this edition as 96-03-03a).
3
Annotated by J. Baker in black ink below the postscript: 37 species of ferns & Lycopodeaceae received Mch 30 1896 | Report sent herewith JGB.

Please cite as “FVM-96-02-24,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-02-24