To Richard Kippist   26 May 1880

26/5/80

 

Allow me to ask you, dear Mr Kippist, whether an application form has reached you for the F.LS, for which honor I wished to propose Mr Charles Hugh Fawcett, now Member of the Legislative Assembly for the District of the Richmond River, Clarence River & Brunswick River, a very large electorate in N.S. Wales.1

Should the application have been miscarried, then please fill out one on the behalf of the Rev. Will. Woolls, Rob Fitzgerald Esq & myself, who were Mr Fawcett’s sponsors.2

Regardfully your

Ferd.von Mueller.

 

Mr Fawcett enriched our knowledge of the plants of the Richm Riv District greatly and discovered Clematis Fawecetti,3 Fawcettia tinosporoides,4 Rhipogonum Fawcetti,5 &c.

 

Clematis Fawecetti

Fawcettia tinosporoides

Rhipogonum Fawcetti

 
 
1
See Fawcett's nomination form (in this edition as 80-01-00b).
2
Fawcett was elected on 2 December 1880, his certificate having been read on 4 November.
3
C. fawcettii? Described in B76.01.01, p. 1.
4
Described in B77.02.03, p. 93.
5
R. fawcettianum? Described in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 9, with the name attributed to ‘F. Muell. Herb.’

Please cite as “FVM-80-05-26,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-05-26