2/10/82
It is very kind of you, dear Mr Ramsay, to help on the Algology of N.S.W. through Mr Bennetts aid and through your own personal exertions. The mail brought this morning the specimens from Port Stephens,1 and these shall also have careful attention. Th[e] green Cladophora I had not yet from N. S. Wales I will send you bye & bye specimens of your Algs back, fully named, but at present I am striving to finish the Census of the vascular plants,2 so that the volume may be out in 1882 yet.
Lederstedtia is separated as a genus recently from Ulva.3
What a lamentable loss also to the L.S, the conflagration of your palace!4 But really why was to such a building not given at all events a coating of Waterglass;5 the trifling expenditure of that would have so far protected the wood, as to render the combustion slow, and then the works of art & science and the important documents could have yet timely been saved. All Theater scenery ought by law be rendered unflammable (though they would be still slowly combustible) by the use of Waterglass, which can so cheaply be produced from Sand, Charcoal & Potash.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
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15 |
parts |
Quartz or Sand, |
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10 |
" |
Potash |
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1 |
" |
Charcoal |
Cladophora
Lederstedtia
Ulva
Please cite as “FVM-82-10-02a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-10-02a