Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne bot Garden

17/7/72.

I am not at all sure, dear Dr Hector, whether I have thanked you for the kind sending of your valuable publications. They are real boons and treasures! You will be aware that I had here extraordinary harrassing anxieties in the Department, which indeed are not yet fully overcome. Thus I have hardly commenced to work on a final elaboration of the plants from the Chathamian Islands. As for Mr Travers popular work

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No 'popular work' by Travers on Chatham Islands has been found.

an enumeration of the genera will suffice I fancy that the short postponement of the elaboration will cause no displeasure

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M published 'preliminary notes' in B73.05.01, but no further publication with more detail.

My list of industrial plants,

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B72.07.01.

now to be sent, will serve you also as your clime is so similar to ours.

I will endeavour to complete your copy of the series of my Fragmenta, as far as it is still possible.

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Requested in J. Hector to M, 2 July 1872.

I will write to Mr Travers also by this mail.

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Letter not found.