Document information

Physical location:

CA 372, box 1 (30 March 1878), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 78.03.30

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Hutton, 1878-03-30. 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/1870-9/1878/78-03-30-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

30/3/78
The plants, so considerately offered by you, dear Capt Hutton, will be much prized by me for completing the N.Z. section of plants in my Museum. I happen to have ready about 350 sp. of mostly select Australian plants (dried), which were intended for a correspondent in America. These you shall have in return for the Otago Museum, and I will despatch them at once. They contain many rarities from various parts of the Australian continent. More specimens can be sent hereafter; but I just start for Gippsland with the other commissioners
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The Commission of Inquiry into the supply of bark for tanning.
to enquire, whether the supply of bark of
Acacia pycnantha

Search for Acacia pycnantha in

and A. decurrens is likely to continue for our local tanneries.
What has become of our friend Liversidge? I was not aware, that he was absent.
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Archibald Liversidge was on leave from the University of Sydney from December 1877 to May 1879, visiting various parts of Europe.
If, at any time, you should fall in with fossil fruits, the elucidation of which requiring a general knowledge of the plants of the globe, would you then kindly entrust their elaboration to me?
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Please send a shipping receipt pr post when you forward the plants, so that there is no fear of them going astray; Adress simply to me "Melbourne"