20/9/82.
It is only through your msc., dear Professor, that I now notice the occurrence of several errors, regards localities, in the Census.1 The most glaring occur in Trachymene and Isopogon.2 How I missed correcting them, is an enigma to me, as I twice revise the proof sheets; but this is often at late night hours, so that the passing of isolated letters at wrong places is pardonable; possibly the letters may have become transposed or disarranged finally in the printing establishments. I am glad, that I had my attention drawn to the subject, so that I can rectify the main mistakes at the end of the volume under "errata".3
In reference to the Hibisc.4 Huegelii, Comesperma defoliatum5 & a few others I remain in doubt; so it will be best to omit them for the present,6 as other addenda will occur hereafter. When the whole Census is printed I will go gradually through the whole Herbarium & add and correct the colonial notations
As regards the bid7 of sketch map with geologic coloring, that is not to forestal8 greater works of your own, but merely to serve as material for an other public lecture, to be given after some months.9
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller
Mr J. E. Brown10 has sent Euc.11 cosmophylla from near Port Lincoln.
Comesperma defoliatum
Eucalyptus cosmophylla
Hibiscus Huegelii
Isopogon
Trachymene
B83.03.04.
Trachymene and Isopogon are ticked, presumably by Tate.
B83.03.04. There is no errata list per se, but the 'additional annotations' include corrections to geographical distribution; for example, on p. 142, Trachymene cirrosa and Isopogon asper are noted as not occurring in SA and Vic, or in SA, Tas and Vic, respectively, as stated earlier in the work.
Hibiscus.
Hibisc. and Comesperma are ticked, presumably by Tate.
Tate was working on a list of additions to the list of the flora of SA, originally published as Tate (1880). The species mentioned are not included in Tate (1882) or Tate (1882b); the Hibiscus is recorded as H. wrayae in Tate (1889a), p. 76.
bit?
forestall?
The next known lecture by M was delivered to the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church Literary Association, of which he was Patron, on Tuesday 24 April; his topic was 'The future of Australia'. He gave the same lecture to the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society on 6 July 1883 (Australasian, 14 July 1883, p. 18). No published version has been found, but the short description in 'Recent meetings', Argus, 28 April 1883, p. 11 suggests that its themes were used again in his address prepared for the Brisbane 1895 meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, B96.04.10.
J. Ednie Brown.
Eucalyptus.
Please cite as “FVM-82-09-20a,” 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