The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 17/4/89 ¶ ¶ The "Brittania" was so full of goods, when about to start at the beginning of this month, dear Mr Dyer, that the Gymnoschoenus could not be taken; ¶ so it is shipped now by the P. & O. S...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 273. 89.04.17

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-04-17. 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/1880-9/1889/89-04-17-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

17/4/89

Date stamped : Royal Gardens Kew 27. May. 89. Annotated in ink by William Watson : 314-89 (i.e. entry number in Kew Inwards books 1888-1892, p. 186); in pencil by Daniel Oliver : D.O.; and by Thiselton-Dyer : And 13.6.89 (letter not found ).

The "Brittania" was so full of goods, when about to start at the beginning of this month, dear Mr Dyer, that the could not be taken;

See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 March 1889 (in this edition as 89-03-29b).

so it is shipped now by the P. & O. Steamer "Ballarat." By some inadvertance of an assistant of mine this case with the was with another case, intended for France, consigned also to my London Agents, Mess. Watson & Scull, Thames Street. But as Kew has its own Shipping Agent, I have asked Mess. Watson & Scull, to hand the bill of lading to your Agent.

Request to shipping agents not found.

Will you kindly make your arrangements also for the needful instruction.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

What a lot of valuable plates again issued in or through Kew.

Kew was regularly publishing parts of Hooker's icones plantarum (J. Hooker (1867-89)) and Curtis's botanical magazine (J. Hooker (1865-1904)).

- Your establishment does in this manner more than all others taken together!

There is a red pencil line in the central margin on the back of the folio, probably intended to highlight the details concerning shipping agents; and a large lead pencil ✓ below the end of the text.