To Georgina King   24 September 1896

24/9/16

Copy 1

 

Dear Miss King,

I feel still very poorly so this letter is again by dictation.2 The Boronia kindly sent by you from the Hawkesbury River3 is the true B. floribunda so your specimens are very valuable and are fixing the locality for certain; you will easily recognise the species in contrast to B. pinnata. I send sketches of the flowers of both4 so you will easily understand to discriminate these plants and find out more localities for it, it seems restricted to your region.

I have it already in the second census,5 but willl bring it before the next meeting of the Linnean Society of N.S.W.6 Could you kindly learn from Mr Fletcher its Secretary at Elizabeth Bay when the next meeting will be held. It would be best to bring at once this plant forward instead of waiting to obtain also ripe fruit for which I must look to your kindness hereafter.

With regardful remembrance

from your

7Ferd. von Mueller

 

Boronia floribunda

Boronia pinnata

1
Original letter not found. MS is a copy made by Georgina King.
2
See M to G. King, 16 September 1896.
3
NSW.
4
The sketches, together with M’s letters to King, were shown at the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW on 28 October 1896; see Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, vol. 21, 1896, pp. 584-5.
5
B89.13.12, p. 18.
6
M's note, B97.05.01, was read at the meeting held on 30 September 1896.
7
MS annotation by King, before the signature: '(Signed by the Baron)'.

Please cite as “FVM-96-09-24,” 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 18 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-09-24