Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS annotation by M: 'Answ 21/4/85'. Letter not found.

537 Crown St Surry Hills

Sydney, N.S.W.

April 16 /85

My Dear Baron, F. Von. Mueller.

I have been waiting for an answer to my letter which I sent some six weeks ago.

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Letter not found.

I hope I am not troubling you with too many questions and tresspassing unnecessaryly upon your valuable time. I now write to send you the names of two species of Fungi collected near or at Sydney, which so far as I can see you have not recorded in any of your lists (i e)

Lycogala lejosporum

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Lycogala leisporum ?

Reichart, & Hydnum griseo-fuscescens Reichart

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Each of these names is ticked in the margin, presumably by M.

See Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Wein 1866

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Reichardt (1866).

Page 373.

I have looked carefully over the lists of Fungi Both in the F. Ph. Aust. and the suppt

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supplement.

to Vol XI-XII which you so kindly sent me, and have failed to find the above species. I see in Freidlander & Sons Cat. of Books of Berlin, Carl Muellers Synopsis Muscorum

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C. Müller (1849-51).

for sale. Can you inform me as to the Best way of getting it. Would you undertake to get it for me if I send you money or do you think Dr C. Mueller would oblige me if I sent to him direct. Have you seen a copy of A Jaegers = Adumbratio Muscorum totius orbis terrarum 1870 to 1875 in two vols.

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i.e. Jaeger & Sauerbeck (1870-9).

does this work contain descriptions of the mosses of the world or is it simply an enumeration of Genera & Species. Hoping you will kindly answer my queries when you have a spare moment. I am still busy collecting every week end and I have got many more species which I have not sent you and in going through my collection I have found many species which are different from any yet sent I have been to Port Hacking

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NSW.

and got a few new ones that is to my collection. My Freind W. H. Pearson of Manchester is sending me a copy of the British Hepaticae which he and Dr Carrington published

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Presumably the first fascicles of Carrington & Pearson (1878-90).

to which he is adding all the Australian species he can get, so that it will help me much in my future study of these very interesting plants.