16/12/82
I thank you, dear Professor, for the pain, you have taken, in writing out supplemental notes for the census,1 which notes I shall utilize & publicly acknowledge as from you. Pray do not trouble about the geol. sketch-map of S.A. just now, as there is no hurry about it.
I will send the R.S. Paper for Candidature to one of your trusty friends in England, after the Australian signatures have been obtained.2 It is very kind of you to invite me for a joint excursion,3 but this season I shall not have left any time for a tour. Not only ought I to attend to your N. plants4 and sundry other collections, which were laid aside, while I pushed the species-census; but I have also soon to redeem my promise to Professor Luerssen of Leipzig, to elaborate Mrs Dietrich's5 extensive collections of E. Austr. plants. Indeed the specimens came already at the Exhibition-time,6 and I have as yet done little to them.
Mr Kempe sends Sida lepida.
Wishing you a happy Christmas amidst your florishing family and prosp. new year
your
Ferd von Mueller
Sida lepida
B83.03.04.
M was arranging Tate's nomination for the Royal Society of London; see M to R. Tate, 7 October 1882.
The destination of Tate's 'Christmas trip' is not clear, but there are specimens he collected dated in the second half of January 1883 from Kangaroo Island, SA, in both AD and MEL.
i.e. plants from the Northern Territory.
Amalie Dietrich.
International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.
Please cite as “FVM-82-12-16,” 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