From William Woolls1    28 February 1883

Richmond2

Feby 28 /83

My dear Baron,

I have to thank you for the concluding portion of your valuable Census. I find from the Summary that the number of species now known does not reach 10,000! 3 Do you wish me now to notice this work in any of the Papers?4

I have sent to Mudgee5 for a specimen of Lindsaya trichomanoides.6 If I get one, I will forward it.

I enclose a fragment of a Myoporum which Shepherd found at Bega.7 It seems to be M. serratum but you will see that the stamens protrude from the corolla.

I am still in trouble, but live in hope.8

Yours very sincerely

W. Woolls

 

Lindsaya trichomanoides

Myoporum serratum

1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 3/3/83 F.v.M.' Letter not found.
2
NSW.
3
B83.03.04; see p. viii.
4
An unsigned short review appeared in Sydney morning herald, 21 March 1883, p. 4; a longer but also unsigned review giving more details and discussion of the principles underlying M's arrangement of the species was published in the related weekly Sydney mail, 31 March 1883, p 581.
5
NSW.
6
See W. Woolls to M, 12 February 1883.
7
NSW.
8
See W. Woolls to M, 12 February 1883.

Please cite as “FVM-83-02-28a,” 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/83-02-28a