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WP/3/6, 1859/31, general inward letters, Superintendent of Wellington Province, National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington. 59.01.14

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Featherston, 1859-01-14. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/59-01-14>, accessed November 15, 2024

Melbourne botan. & zoolog. Garden,
14 Jan. 1859
My dear Dr Featherstone
For the kind transmission of a Wardian case ful of New Zealand plants, I have to tender you my cordial thanks.
1
See also I. Featherston to M, 27 January 1858; a further case was sent, see M to I. Featherston, 10 March 1859, in this edition as 59-03-10a.
The plants arrived in an excellent state and I shall not fail to act according to your request & furnish his Excellency
2
Henry Barkly.
with a share of them. Having only just returned from an exploratory-journey to our alps, I had not sufficient time to fill the case for return this time, but I will be happy to do so by the next steamer.
— Enclosed in a box, which I forwarded to Auckland for the Novara Frigatte,
3
An Austrian scientific expedition visited Australia and New Zealand in 1859 in Novara. See Scherzer (1861-2).
I put a few pamphlets for you, which I hope arrived, altho' they are perhaps of limited interest to you.
I have hitherto failed to receive any dried pressed specimens of plants from the Chatham Islands. I forwarded some paper for drying them to the missionary about 8 months ago. Unless I am anticipated in this work by the Novara, I should gladly have examined the vegetation of this of the N.Z. dependencies, which probably will be interesting, as being the last island under those latitudes in the S. Sea, until we reach Juan Fernandez.
4
M published an account of the flora of the Chatham Islands in 1864 (B64.13.02).
With sincere regard,
I remain, dear and honorable Sir,
Your very attached
Ferd. Mueller
The honor. Dr Featherstone M.D.,
&c&c&c