The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [Our illustration (fig. 46) ¶ The illustration is in an unsigned article, 'Orchid notes and gleanings'.94-08-00b_image01.jpg ¶ ¶ is ¶ ¶ taken from a glass negative prepared in New Guinea by the R...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1894-08 [94.08.00b]. 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/1890-6/1894/94-08-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from Gardeners' chronicle, 22 September 1894, p. 339. The letter is dated to early August as the latest likely date that it could have been sent for the illustration to have been engraved and published in this issue of the journal.

[Our illustration (fig. 46)

The illustration is in an unsigned article, 'Orchid notes and gleanings'.

is taken from a glass negative prepared in New Guinea by the Rev. Mr. Kennedy,

C. E Kennedy in 1894 supplied some specimens from Papua to M, e.g. MEL 0577708, recorded as from Milne Bay, the area where his last lay missionary posting, Taupota, was situated (Langmore (1981), p. 433).

and forwarded by Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. Ed.]

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