Document information

Physical location:

M70/19, unit 26, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.04.23e

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Wadsworth, 1870-04-23 [70.04.23e]. 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//letters/1870-9/1870/70-04-23e-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot Garden
23/4/70
Will you be so kind, dear Mr Wadsworth, to apprize his Excellency Viscount Canterbury of my wish, to connect his honored name as a lasting mark of homage with one of the 3 magnificent Palms recently discovered in Lord Howes Island,
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Kentia canteburyana. See B70.04.01, p. 101.
one other being dedicated to Earl Belmere,
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Belmore? M described Kentia Belmoreana and K. Mooreana, both also from Lord Howe Island, in the same issue of the Fragmenta (pp. 99 and 101 respectively).
in whose colonial territory the discovery was made. A small plant of the
Kentia Canterburiana

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is in my conservatory, and I hope to secure one for his Lordship from Mr Ch. Moore.
Your very regardful
Ferd. von Mueller
I have written the description of this magnificent plant for the current number of my Fragmenta.
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MS annotation by Viscount Canterbury: 'Inform Dr Von Mueller that I accept with gratification his offer to confer my name on a recently discovered Palm Tree | Cy | May 12 1870'. The same day, Wadsworth added 'Done'.