The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Brisbane ¶ Oct. 27th 1886 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ Please accept my thanks for your excellent Lithographic monograph of Myoporinae. ¶ It makes one wish for more such works. ¶ Your much obliged friend...

Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 86.10.27

Plant names

Melaleuca
Search for Melaleuca in

Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886-10-27. 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/1880-9/1886/86-10-27-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Ms found with a specimen of Dendrobium eriaeoides (MEL 2258730).

Brisbane

Oct. 27th 1886

Dear Baron

Please accept my thanks for your excellent Lithographic monograph of Myoporinae.

B86.08.05.

It makes one wish for more such works.

Your much obliged friend

F. M. Bailey

Your note re the e was too late for the plant was given in my first Occasional Paper

See M to F. Bailey, 22 October 1886 (in this edition as 86-10-22d). lysicephala, described under the names of M and Bailey in Bailey (1886a), p. 2; no further Occassional Paper has been found. In Bailey (1888), p. 24, the species was transferred to Agonis.

the only way now to do is

it missing ?

to correct it in the next about to be printed or leave it as it is for a time and we might obtain better specimens

FMB

I have heard nothing about this Mr Hooker except the notice in the paper

The appointment of Joseph Hooker's son Brian by the Queensland Government as Mineralogical Lecturer was widely reported in the Queensland press in early October 1886; see, for example, Brisbane courier, 9 October 1886, p. 5.

but is

if?

I do meet him will give him your message