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Physical location:

RB MSS M14, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.09.19

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-09-19. 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/1890-6/1892/92-09-19-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Grevillea macleayana (MEL 98862). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 22/9/92'. Letter not found. There is a file copy of this letter in the Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM, SYDNEY.
Memo. from the CURATOR to Baron von Mueller K.C.M.G., FRS
19th Sept: 1892
Dear Baron Mueller,
By this post I send sketch-drawing of
Hakea Bakeriana

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, which can be properly finished after you have examined it and made alterations (if any).
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The finished illustration by R. T. Baker accompanying B93.14.03, is plate 30 in the volume; the description cites plate 29, but that is an illustration of Acacia maidenii, described in B93.09.06, where the description cites plate 28.
The matter of a species-name for the Grevillea might stand over for a little if you are agreeable.
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See J. Maiden to M, 14 September 1892, and J. Maiden to M, 21 September 1892 (in this edition as 92-09-21a).
Perhaps if it were called after my Minister
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F. B. Suttor.
it might be misunderstood; he might think I wished to curry favour. He is, all the same, a very good man, and bears an honoured name.
5
F. Suttor was a grandson of George Suttor, one of the first botanical collectors sent by Joseph Banks to NSW.
It might be more desirable to give it some name descriptive of the species.
I found it on flat, moist, sandy, barren land 2 or 3 miles as the crow flies from Jervis Bay and at no great elevation, say 100 feet, above the sea. I should require to define the place more accurately by means of a map, as it was not near a township or prominent landmark.
The species may require to be described (at least provisionally) in absence of fruits. It is 11½ miles from a main road & in very rough country. I took a buggy & nearly had a smash. The place is uninhabited & it maybe a long time before I am able to revisit the locality.
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No species of Grevillea named jointly by M and Maiden has been found.
Yours truly,
J. H. Maiden.
I did look for fruits in July, but none were to be seen then.