Richmond1
May 13 /82
My dear Baron,
I am glad you were pleased with Review.2 Mr Tenison-Woods pays you a handsome compliment in one of his recent articles,3 which I propose to notice. He has delivered a long & able geological address lately, but I believe that his views about our Hawkesbury sand stone &c are not universally accepted.4 I met Mr Stephens also. He has entered on his duties.5
The toothed leaves of Zamia which I sent you did not come from Z. spiralis. They were from the smaller plant growing in sandy places in this neighbourhood. I never find this latter plant with the lower leaflets reduced to spines.
I will send you the first opportunity some copies of my lecture for distribution.6
Thanks for the amusing address to yourself,7 & also for your valuable letter about Didiscus. I did not know that it possessed any bad properties8
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
P.S.
Our friend Mr Teitkins is going to be married, I think next month.9 I expect you will see him on his way to Sydney I called at the Museum, but Mr Ramsay was in the country.
P.S. I have just recd the index &c of Fragmenta.10 I will review it in the course of a week or ten days.11
Didiscus
Zamia spiralis
NSW.
Not identified.
Possibly Woods (1883), read to the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 22 February 1882 and issued in May 1882 (Anonymous (1929)), in which Woods began his notes on Queensland botany by saying (p. 76): 'Now that the grand work of describing and cataloguing has been accomplished by the illustrious botanists Bentham and Mueller, humbler laborers may step in to add to the account of knowledge'.
Woods (1882). The paper was read at the Royal Society of New South Wales on 10 May 1882. Woods's theory of the wind-blown origin of the sandstone was vigorously challenged in the discussion following the presentation of his paper, especially by the Government Geologist, C. S. Wilkinson.
W. J. Stephens was appointed in March 1882 to a newly created chair of natural history at the University of Sydney.
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Letter not found; but see B82.05.12.
William Tietkens married at Richmond, NSW, on 14 June 1882.
B82.05.22 as issued contains vol. 11 sensu stricto of the Fragmenta, ending with B82.13.14, and a separately paginated Supplementum: B80.11.01, B81.13.12, B81.13.13.
A long review (unsigned but almost certainly by Woolls) of Fragmenta, vol. 11 appeared in Sydney morning herald, 17 May 1882, p. 9. Reference to contributors indicates that Woolls had certainly seen B80.11.01, B81.13.12, and possibly B81.13.13. The review especially praised the supplement and drew attention to the 'elegant figures of Australian fungi'. No volumes bound as issued have been seen that included these figures. There is however, a separately-issued text (Cooke (1883)) described as "Supplementum ad Fragmentorum Phytographiae Australiae | pro auctorite | Baron Ferdinandus de Mueller, K.C.M.G. | Fungi Australiani, | M. C. Cooke, | enumerate. | (Impr "Grevillea," t. X., XI.) | 1883 | Melbourne.' That volume has a different letterpress and four plates. Woolls apparently received at least the plates of this supplement.
Please cite as “FVM-82-05-13,” 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