Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS 2009/21, item 27, Linnean Society of NSW, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 93.01.09

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Haswell, 1893-01-09. 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/1890-6/1893/93-01-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation: 'Recd and Answd 3/2/93'. Letter not found.
9/1/93.
It is my intention, dear Prof. Haswell, to furnish as a contribution to the M'Leay's memorial volume
2
Fletcher (1893), a memorial volume for Sir William Macleay. See also M to J. Fletcher, 24 February 1893 (in this edition as 93-02-24a) and M to J. Fletcher, 29 March 1893. In the end, M contributed a different paper for the volume; see B93.09.06.
a brief article, by which the results of the third Census of Australian plants, so far as the entries could hitherto be made, are brought out by 3 years work. The time for the 3th Census will only be 1896;
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The proposed third edition of M's Census was never published.
but as half the period between the 2. & 3. has elapsed, this interim-record should be worthy of the pages, for which it is destined, it having at all events the merit of being absolutely original and being readable to anyone also.
Will you be so good, to tell me, by what date you require the article, as it seems, that you like, to place it in first instance before the L. S.
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Linnean Society.
of N.SW.
With best new-years felicitation
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.