Ferdinand von Mueller

23/9/93.

Yesterday, dear Mr Deane, arrived the superb set of proof-plates for the new part of the lamented Mr Fitzgerald's work.

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R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 2, part 5.

I am just on the eve of departure for the Adelaide Meeting of the Australian Association,

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In the event, ill-health prevented M from attending the Adelaide meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science; see M to A. Macdonald, 25 September 1893.

and must defer thus for some few days my attending to the very careful inspection of these pictures; but from a hurried glance on them, it does not appear that any much has to be altered. My aid will mainly consist, so far as I can see, in furnishing additional notes for the text. Would you be so kind, to let me know by about a week's time, to what extent the text is ready in each instance, and therefore what particular notes would be required to be added. I would know then exactly what to do, and no unnecessary redactation would take place. We would then also have some plan, on which I could aid you in future. New localities may probably also be obtained from me, if I know which are those, recorded by you. For instance, the

Epipogum

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was found by the Right Rev. Dr J. F. Turner, Lord Bishop of Armidale on the Richmond River, and by Mr Wilcox on the Clarence-River.

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Both rivers in NSW.

Mr Fitzgerald may or may not have been aware of these localities. So I am expecting still further detail suggestions from you by the beginning of October.