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University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32 87.01.24b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1887-01-24 [87.01.24b]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-01-24b-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

24/1/87
By this post, dear Dr Beccari, I send you portion of a leaf and of a fruiting panicle from what appears to me a new species of Livistona. This material came just to hand from the Louisades,
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An archipelago c. 250 km S.E. of Papua New Guinea.
where the Governor of British New Guinea obtained it in a recent gubernatorial visit. I induced his Excellency to collect plants and as he is a M.D. I had no difficulty in inspiring Dr MacGregor with the idea, to investigate the Flora of his ample and rich territory also to some extent. To encourage him in his future researches also, I would like, that you early describe under our joined authority this palm as
Livistona Macgregori

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, should you concur with my view, that it [i]s
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editorial addition: MS damaged.
new
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No Livistona species described jointly by Beccari and M is listed in IPNI (accessed 14 November 2020).
Kindly write a few lines, when this letter reaches you, whether the specimen reached you all rightly
with regardful remembrance
your Ferd. von Mueller