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RB MSS M32, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 91.08.18Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1891-08-18. 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/1890-6/1891/91-08-18-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
18/8/91
It is very kind of you, dear Miss Henley, to send the new lot of fungs, which were
very acceptable. Let me solicit, that you will continue collecting other sorts as
there they may successively show themselves. Martin's Creek
is quite a new locality for plants; so if your brother will kindly gather
all
sorts of plants, even the smallest weeds and aquatics, he is sure to discover many
rarities and perhaps even novelties, for which he will get full credit in my works.
As in transit any book, containing dried plants, might suffer, it would be far preferable,
if you sent numbered duplicates; you could best yourself then enter the names from
the list emanating thus.
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There are seven specimens collected in 1891 or 1892 at MEL attributed to S. Henley,
all from Upper Flinders River, Qld, to the east of Martin's Creek, a gold-mining area
near Cloncurry. One of Maria's brothers was Sydney Henley (1869-1942).
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller