Ferdinand von Mueller

27/5/94.

Let me kindly know, dear Mr Deane, whether I sent you the information required for the new part of Mr Fitzgeralds Orchideous plants,

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Fitzgerald (1875-1894); Deane worked up vol. 2, part 5, the final part to be published. The part is undated but is usually given as 1894 (TL2; 'Donations' in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 20, p. 213 dates vol. 2, parts 3-5 as (1888-94)). Part 5 was evidently published late in 1894 as Sydney morning herald, 18 January 1895, p. 3, announced that it had received a copy from the Government Printer.

or whether — as it occasionally happened I stopped short at the intention. The correspondence in my branch of the public service is so enormous (6000 letters in 1893) that I only get the strictly official letters copied, so I am not certain whether I carried out what you wished. My intentions to do so are always genuine, but in the overwhelming and multifarious engagements with quite inadequate aid, subjects may pass from my memory. If I am proving thus perhaps inattentive to you, kindly remind me by some few lines. Let me also know in some way the exact information needed. I suppose, you want notes on the geographic range of particular species. I may not always have much to add, to what is published in the Flora,

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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, pp. 266-396.

the Fragmenta and other works also on Australian orchids