The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 27/5/93 ¶ ¶ Your kind letter, dear Miss Walker, has reached me, ¶ and so also come the splendid pictures of fungs, through the kindness of Miss Cole. ¶ It is most praiseworthy, that you at once exe...

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Physical location:

Am 27/1, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 93.05.27b

Plant names

Agaricus
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Loranthus celastroides
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1893-05-27 [93.05.27b]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-05-27b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

27/5/93

Your kind letter, dear Miss Walker, has reached me,

Letter not found.

and so also come the splendid pictures of fungs, through the kindness of Miss Cole.

Margaret Ward-Cole.

It is most praiseworthy, that you at once exerted yourself in this respect after your return.

Let me also express my best thanks for the elegant volume, presented so graciously to me with lines of remembrance.

The copy of A. Walker (1887) in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is inscribed: 'To Baron Sir F. von Müeller K.C.M.G. with grateful remembrance Annie F. Walker Rhodes. Ryde. New South Wales. May the 18th 1893'.

What a beautiful book for festive presents in your colony, to awaken an interest in the native flowers.

As regards the fung-paintings, do you require them back? In the -genus over thousand well marked species are recorded, so that I like to send your painted drawings under your honored name to a specialist in Europe, who may then wish to keep them.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

I received the specimens of also, and have dried them carefully. The Loranthus is L. celastroides, Sieber.