The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [The President ¶ read a short paper on the peculiarities of the Cordyceps Taylori, a fungus growing on the head of an insect which lives underground and feeds on the roots of plants, a specimen of...

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87.01.00e

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Cordyceps Taylori
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Harvey Harkness, 1887-01 [87.01.00e]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-01-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Academy of Sciences', Daily evening bulletin (San Francisco), 8 February 1887. The latest date that the letter could have been sent to arrive in San Francisco in time for a paper to be read in early February would have been in the first week of January 1887. At about the same time a specimen was sent to England, see M to M. Masters, December 1886 (in this edition as 86-12-00l).

[The President

i.e. of the California Academy of Sciences.

read a short paper on the peculiarities of the , a fungus growing on the head of an insect which lives underground and feeds on the roots of plants, a specimen of which had been forwarded to him by Baron von Mueller from Australia.]