15/9/96
Dear Mrs Ryan
Your kind letter was received this day as well as the box & parcel of dried plants I am all the more beholden to you as you have been ill so long let me hope that a recovery of your health will be speedy & lasting. I shall examine the specimens carefully & let you know the result. It was particularly kind of you to obtain even specimens from N. W. Australia it seems that you will leave for Eucla1 if so will you kindly try to interest someone else there in collecting plants although the immediate neighbourhood of your harbour may be poor in vegetation yet a large number of species particularly minute kinds are sure to exist more inland the boundary line is so important for botanical searches as it effects two colonies.
With regardful remembrance
Your
Ferd. von Mueller
P.S. The land plants near Swan River2 have during the last 60 years become well known so that I should require from there only seaweeds.
Please cite as “FVM-96-09-15,” 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