16/2/82
It is very kind of you, dear Mr Cheeseman, to send me the fruit of Persoonia Tora. The specimens of drupes will answer my purposes very well. Have you any good fruit-specimens of Sporadanthus at hand?
I am quite ashamed to tax you & other friends, without doing something in return for you; but really I have had for a long time past not leisure even for my own literary progressive work, as I had to give up a large share of my time for fully 12 months as one of the jurors (in the chemical and 2 other branches) and as one of the general Commissioners for the Exhibition (international).1
I have thus not made up any collections of spare specimens for a long time; but as gradually the accumulated & postponed work of my Department is cleared off, I shall also attend to the distribution of spare-specimens of plants, and you shall not be forgotten. The Poranthera alpina, sent by you, is very interesting. In the Australian Alps I saw P. microphylla right up to the snowline, but may have passed P. alpina.
Of course, you receive the volumes of the R.S.2 of N.S Wales? In the new one I have a systematic index of the 2120 plant-genera, now known as represented in Australia.3
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Persoonia Tora
Poranthera alpina
Poranthera microphylla
Sporadanthus
Please cite as “FVM-82-02-16a,” 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