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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-1896, ff. 20-21. 92.05.02

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1892-05-02. 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/1890-6/1892/92-05-02-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 7. Jun. 92. and annotated on the front of f. 20 in black ink by J. Baker: JGB 7.6.92 and in red ink by W. Thiselton-Dyer: And 8/7/92 (letter not found). The back of f. 21 is annotated in ink by J. Baker: H. javanicum / Spreng/ But I will send him a copy "Annals of Botany" proper when I get them. JGB.
No reference to or question about Hymenophyllum javanicum has been found.
2/5/92
In your last communication, dear Dr Dyer,
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Letter not found.
it is desired by Mr Baker, that I should be more explicit in reference to localities when labelling specimens. I am apt to forget, (I admit), that in my geographic position and exploratory career, I am more conversant with the geography of these southern lands, than many else can be. But I have always chosen on the labels names only of leading features, some dating from Cooks and Flinders time. When sending successively Papuan plants, I usually wrote that they were from New Guinea, but I will in future mark them so specially on the labels also. Mount Warning is in N.S Wales. In the “Australian Handbook,” issued annually by Gordon & Gotsch, 6 Bride Street, Ludgate-Circus, London E.C. a cheap volume of great value, quickly information on Australian localities can be obtained.
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Handbook underlined in red pencil. Annotated next to Gordon & Gotsch ... E.C. by W. Hemsley in red pencil: Wrote to Dulau 10 VI 92 WBH.
The library at RBG Kew holds the 1885 and 1892 editions of The Australian handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea) and shipper's and importers' directory.
In the vol for1885
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1885 doubly underlined in blue pencil.
likely still purchaseable is moreover a map-index of great extent for Australia.
Mt. Bartle-Frere is in North Queensland, it is one of the highest mountains in tropic. Australia. Should unexpectedly any further difficulty arise, perhaps just a line or two to one of your geographic friends in Burlington-House would solve the riddle.
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Burlington House included the rooms of the Linnean and Geological Societies; the Royal Geographical Society was nearby in Savile Row and used meeting rooms in Burlington House.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
As regards quotations of senders of fungs, they ought I think to be recorded by a fixed plan, in justice to all parties in the new work.
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Cooke (1892).