To William Branwhite Clarke1    8 October 1873

Melbourne

8/10/73.

 

May I ask you, reverend and dear friend, whether the enclosed nut, which came here with Sydney coal, is known to you, and whether any records are extant in books concerning it. I have only 2 or 3, and the dissection of more than one, which may give no result, should be avoided.

Among Leichhardt's plants some are marked in 1843 "Archer's station". Have you a recollection what place that might have been 30 years ago?2

The copy of your adress,3 so kindly intended for me, will probably come by next post. It will be a discourse of great value, like everything that emanates from you, and I shall treasure it both for the intrinsic value and for the condescending friendship of the author.

With kindest remembrance

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
MS envelope front: 'O.H.M.S. | The Reverend | W. B. Clarke, M.A., F.G.S., | FZS. &c &c Northshore | Sydney | Ferd. von Mueller'. Front is stamped Melbourne, 9 October 1873.
2
‘Durundur’, the most northern station at the time in the Moreton district in what is now Qld.
3
Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales for the year 1873 (1874), pp. 1-39.

Please cite as “FVM-73-10-08a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-10-08a