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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-1896, f. 64. 94.07.03

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-07-03. 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/1890-6/1894/94-07-03-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

3/7/94.
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 8 AUG. 94, and annotated in red ink by William Hemsley: Ackd. | List sent | 9.8.94 (neither letter nor list have been found).
The enclosed fern, dear Dr Dyer, may not have reached you before, – at all events I do not remember, that it passed through my hands on any former occasion. It has just arrived from the mountainous part of the interior of S.E. New Guinea, where endemic forms may even exist among ferns there. [It] appears to be best placed into Gymnogramme (Grammitis), though it verges also into the allied genera
Meniscium

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Antrophyum

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. If an
Asplenium

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, then the indusium must be very evanescent or reduced. I send you 3 of the four fronds, which I have, and I have named the plant preliminarely Gymnogramme (or Grammitis) orbiformis
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Grammitis orbiformis

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or Gymngramme orbiformis has been found.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller
Great deficit in the revenue here at the close of the financial year end of June 1894, though the outlook for the future is more hopeful. So at present, - I fear, it is impossible to create a new position for your brother in law here,
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Brian Hooker.
but I shall continue watchful in his interest.
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Annotated in black ink by John Baker below the last line of the text: [with] 14 New Guinea ferns & fungi. Names sent herewith JGB 8/8/94 (list of names not found).