Volume 58: Sir George Macleay correspondence, 1848-1880: No. 435
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[Page 435]
spike in my cold house the other day, and it was a brilliant thing compared with the [indecipherable] drawing. By the way, Fitzgerald Orchids are all under colored, a [indecipherable] fault in [indecipherable] paintings but [indecipherable] they are drawn [indecipherable] wonderfully well the dissections are done. It is a magnificent work doing great honour to the Colony. F. is known but on the threshold of his [indecipherable]. He has literally hundreds of [indecipherable] & species awaiting his pen & pencil. In return for his magnificent present I am sending you [indecipherable] Monograph of the Greens lilium, a [indecipherable] worth too, but coming from the [indecipherable] of F.s fault. They are [indecipherable] over-done, as a scientific work and is not to be [indecipherable] in