[From Baron Von Mueller, thanking Mr. Henry for fresh seeds of marram grass forwarded,1 and asking to be supplied with various specimens of seaweed found on the coast, and offering to send seeds of utilitarian plants in return for the trouble of collecting, and requesting this wish to be made known by the aid of the local papers—The wish to be complied with.]
In a letter considered at the meeting of the Council on 1 April, M had asked for marram seed to be collected; see T. Henry to M, 9 April 1896.
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the inwards correspondence dealt with at a meeting of the Portland Borough Council held on 6 May 1896, Portland guardian, 8 May 1896, p. 3. Thomas Henry was Town Clerk at Portland at the time.
Please cite as “FVM-96-05-00k,” 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