17./3./82.
The byefollowing short paper1 may be acceptable to your R. S.,2 dear Mr Barnard, especially as you have a new part of your next volume under print. Let me hope, that the commencement, now made, to elucidate the flora not only of King's Island will be followed up methodically, and that also from other unexplored regions of the Tasmanian dominions collections will come soon forward.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I remember, that a Gentleman some time ago wrote a description of King's Island for the Tasmanian journals;3 but I cannot find the copy, which I received; thus some plants may be mentioned in that report, and perhaps the highest points of elevation could be ascertained from the survey-office. Memoranda to that effect would be interesting, if appended to my present notes.4
F.v.M.
B82.13.14.
Royal Society of Tasmania.
The Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1873 includes (p. 50) a brief description of King Island, in Bass Strait, extracted from the Tasmanian Government gazette, 31 March 1827, that may be the report to which M is referring.
No such annotations were added to M's text.
For a summary of this letter, see Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1882 (1883) p. xxvii.
Please cite as “FVM-82-03-17,” 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