Ferdinand von Mueller

1

Annotated by Thiselton-Dyer: Specimen recd. Thanked 24/8/85 (letter not found).

8/7/85.

I have to acknowledge, dear Mr Dyer, from you t[he]

2

editorial addition: page torn. All following [ ] have the same meaning.

receipt of a set of Dr [Gupp]y’s plants, for which I am much obliged and for which present I will also send my grateful acknowledgement to the Doctor.

3

See M to J. Hooker, 10 December 1884.

Y[ou] asked me some time ag[o for] a piece of the scented W.A. Sandal-wood;

4

Request not found, but see notes to M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, April 1884 (in this edition as 84-04-00).

this I procured, and I now offer in book-form. For the London Exhibition of next year a small library of such books is under preparation, but Victoria is not rich in wood and I shall not be able to muster more than about 100 volumes, including [C...] woods from the other [c]olonies Perhaps it may be intended to form a Colonial Museum in London, for which then probably the Exhib. collections would be claimed; if this is not the case, your e[s]tablishment ought to have no difficulty to secure the whole vegetable exhibits.

Best thanks for various prints sent by you.

The extreme pressure of work for exhibition, exploration in New Guinea also other extras this year, render it impossible to go on with distributing and selecting more spare specimens; more however shall follow so soon as leisure permits.

I can get no more specimens of

Asplenium Robinsonii

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.

5

See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 April 1884.

Best thanks for

Bucklandia

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seeds.

6

The postscript is written on a smaller sheet of paper, f. 153, and may not have been part of this letter.