23/7/83
It does you infinite credit, dear Professor, that you attend so strenuously to the completion of the records of the South Australian Flora also, while your attention is already so much occupied with your geologic researches. However you enjoy now the ready means for wide travelling, while at my time every distance had to be done on foot or on horseback.
Surely some novelty will be among the plants from Lake Torrens,1 altho' you must have been too early for the spring-annuals, which likely are very numerous there.
A very encouraging review of my "Census" from an Austrian scientific Journal2 came by last mail, the only one I have yet seen. Of course I must be prepared for criticism more or less unfavorable from those, who wish to keep up D.C.3 system & B. & H. genera4 rigorously, altho' I can foresee, that the Monoclamydeae will drag on their existence not beyond the end of this century, and the surprise in the next century will be, that they became not much earlier defunct!
I am just finishing the 9th Decade of the Eucalyptography through the press;5 after that I hope to make a grand progress with the residue of your plants. The Calcutta Exhibition6 however claims also just time of mine, and the correspondence is very heavy.
You will get in a few days the print of a n.g. of Menispermeae.7
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Menispermeae
Monoclamydeae
SA.
M's Systematic census of Australian plants (B83.03.04) was reviewed very favourably by J. A. Knapp in Zeitschrift des Allgemeinen Österreichischen Apothekervereines, vol. 21, p. 255, published 1 June 1883.
De Candolle.
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
Not distributed until April 1884, B84.04.04.
International Exhibition, Calcutta, 1883-4.
M erected the genus Husemannia (H. protensa) in B83.05.03.
Please cite as “FVM-83-07-23,” 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