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Letter press copy book 2, p. 535, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 93.09.13

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-09-13. 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/93-09-13>, accessed September 11, 2025

September 13th [189]3
1
editorial addition.
Dear Baron
I have to thank you for your [most] kind letter lately received.
2
See M to F. Bailey, September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-00h).
I have no doubt but that in writing up the supplementary volume for our Flora, you will able to set to rights many doubts recorded in the volumes of the Flora,
3
Bentham (1863-78); Bailey is referring to the supplement to this work that M had promised to provide after Bailey proposed doing it himself; see F. Bailey to M, March 1893 (in this edition as 93-03-00b), and F. Bailey to M, 14 June 1893. See also Clements (1998) and Lucas (2003), pp. 272–4.
as you tell me that you have done in regard to Helipt. corymbif.
4
Helipterum corymbiflorum.
var: microglossa.
I have a very great respect for Lady MacGregor and hope that her proposed stay in Europe may be a pleasant change for both her and her children
I am sending you by this mail specimens of a few of my new species of one I send copy of diagnosis for my Bulletin has been long delayed at the printers and you may require it for the additional volume.
5
The specimen of Cupania flagelliformis, MEL108626, is accompanied by a MS description headed 'Extract from Bot. Bulletin which has been in printers hands since July 1893'. The printed description is in Bailey (1893), p. 73.
The specimens are
Rottboellia rariflora

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Conyza elata

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Pygeum Turnerianum

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Myrtus exaltata

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Cupania flagelliformis &
Endiandra Sankeyana

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. There has been a stoppage at the printing office but now I believe things are going on all right; the delay has not been caused on my account. Nothing fresh has turned up with regard to myself, but it will probably be brought before the House by some member, and I must wait for this to occur
6
In August 1893 Bailey was retrenched. He continued working without salary and, after local protests and appeals from local and British botanists and others, was reinstated, though at a reduced salary, from 1 January 1894. See Clements (1999), pp. 196-8, and M to W. Thiseton-Dyer, 3 November 1893.
Ever yours very truly
F. M. Bailey