Ferdinand von Mueller

4/10/84

Some time ago, dear Mr Newbery you kindly promised me some samples of Chromiron, wanted by one of the Professors in Germany; but perhaps in the multitude of your engagements, you may have not been able, to follow up the matter. I am myself reminded of this request by some recent letters from Germany; — so if you could help me in this, I should feel very much obliged indeed. Or perhaps you might be able to tell me, to whom I could apply for this purpose.

Have you a copy of my volume on "select plants for industrial culture and naturalisation"

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The most recent edition, published in Sydney (B81.01.04), was entitled Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation ..., However, M often referred in correspondence to this and later editions with the same title simply as 'Select plants'.

in your private library; if not, I will be happy to send you one.

I was sorry to hear of Mr Barnard's illness.

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Frederick William Barnard (c.1830-1909) prepared wood blocks for the technological museum (see notes to M to W. Thistleton-Dyer, 22 June 1886) . His son, Frederick William Barnard (1857-1949), had moved to north Qld in the late 1870s, moving to Mossman about 1881 ('Frederick W. Barnard', Cairns post , 14 September 1949, p. 5), and M's comment suggests that his father may have visited the area, perhaps being the collector of the specimens at MEL dated 1883 and 1884, mostly from the Port Douglas-Mossman area, and attributed to '[Barnard, F.W.]'. No evidence has been found that F. W. Barnard Jnr was a collector.

He must have been incautious, while rambling in late hours through fever-jungles of N. Queensland.