Ferdinand von Mueller

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Annotated ‘Ansd. 7/9/86’.

I like to mention, dear Prof. Liversidge, that the genus

Pycnarrhena

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(thus in Annal. & Magaz. of Nat. Hist., sec. ser. VII, 37, 1851) has become recently added to the Flora of Australia.

2

See B86.09.03.

This genus should head the small supplemental list, of which I sent you the manuscript.

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That is, additions to the MS of B87.13.03: the genus, misprinted as Pyenarrhena, heads the article, and the MS list (not found) must therefore have been received between the paper being read on 7 July 1886 and being sent to print.

Entre nous I like to say, that it seems a pity, your Royal Society cannot publish with that regularity, so much desirable, — particularly as the Linnean Soc in your City

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Linnean Society of NSW.

brings always out its issues so quickly. I here suffer very much also (I speak in confidence ) from the difficulty, to get my works published timely by the Gov. Printing Office, as necessarily Parliamentary work and Departmental Routine work must take precedence.

Our Roy. Soc has a grant annually, (I think it is £200) — that enables it to have its printing done in private Establishments; and in reality it is not an extra tax on the public treasury, as at the Gov. Printing Offices any where the work done entails always a distinct additional expenditure.

I hope, that the

Ardisia

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will not fall early in the hands of a phytographer abroad to be redescribed elsewhere.

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B87.10.07 with the description of

Ardisia

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poranthera was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 2 June 1886.