Ferdinand von Mueller

1

MS annotation: 'From Baron Von Mueller.'

4/12/85

Let me thank you, dear Mr Turner, for your goodness in sending me the "town & country" with your important notes on native grasses.

2

Turner contributed a number of articles on Australian grasses to the Australian town and country journal, commencing in 1885.

I beg of you particularly, to continue these sendings, so that I may have your observations all before me; they can be utilized for a new edition of my select plants in 1886,

3

There was no 1886 edition; the next edition in English was B88.12.01.

under your name That of 1885 is just printed.

4

B85.12.03.

I only a few days ago reported to the Royal Commission of Rural industries

5

Royal Commission on Vegetable Products, 1885-93. M's first appearance before the Royal Commission was on 19 January 1886, when he appears to have been questioned on a long written submission that included this advice, but that is dated after the present letter to Turner; see M to J. Levien, 28 December 1885. See also Frost & S. Harvey (1997).

here, how desirable it was, that the best native grasses, fodder-shrubs and saltbushes should be regularly resown on the holdings or runs.