8/7/82.
I am much pleased, dear Prof Tate, with the consideration of the council of the R.S. of SA.,1 admitting of early successive publication of joint essays of ours. Excuse me, for not having sent as yet more notes on your plants. The printer of the plant Census2 here has overtaken me; and I was thus suddenly plunged into the greatest of all our genera, Acacia, of which during the last 20 years huge additional material has accumulated with me. In a few days I shall have ready what is required of Acacia for the Census, and will give then some of your plants the first consideration. Excuse this time brevity, but this is a late hour after a heavy days work and I feel very tired.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
You seem not to have read my report on the vegetation of North Australia, published in Hookers journal of 1858.3 I have perused with deep interest your lecture.
Acacia
Royal Society of South Australia.
B83.03.04.
William Hooker published several extracts from M's notes on his botanical observations during the North Australian Exploring Expedition in his journal during 1857; see B57.06.02, B57.07.01, B57.08.01. M's official report on the botany of the expedition was published in 1858, in the journal of the Linnean Society rather than in Hooker's journal.
Please cite as “FVM-82-07-08,” 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