6/10/83
Sie werden finden, hochgeehrter Herr Professor, dass in dem Rapport über die letzten Vermessungen im Kimberley District Mr Forrest Ihren geehrten Namen einem Berge aufgeprägt hat. Es geschah dies auf meinen besonderen Wunsch.
Stets der Ihre
Ferd. von Mueller
Ich habe die Pflanzen dieser letzten Expedition unter Bearbeitung.
6/10/83
You will find, highly esteemed Professor, that in the report about the last survey in the Kimberley district Mr. Forrest has imprinted your esteemed name on a mountain.1 This happened at my special request.
Always your
Ferd. von Mueller
I am working up the plants of this last expedition.2
The map that accompanied J. Forrest (1883) names the feature "Mt. Behn" (see the State Library of Western Australia digital copy https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1594076_1), the name used on Australian maps published before 1996. The associated river was earlier named 'Behn' in A. Forrest (1880), p. 28, entry for August 7; see Landgate, 'History of river names', http://uat0.landgate.wa.gov.au/maps-and-imagery/wa-geographic-names/name-history/History-of-river-names#B (all URLs accessed 10 May 2022).
The name is shown as 'Mt. Behm' in the 1884 map [see the National Library of Australia digital copy http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232435039] published with [J. Forrest] (1884), a report based by Behm on the material Forrest presented to the Government of WA 'from which everything noteworthy is compiled below in translation and excerpts' [All URLs accessed 10 May 2022].
No published list by M of the species collected on this expedition has been found, and he based no new species on the almost 100 specimens at MEL attributed to J. Forrest 1883, mostly from the Fitzroy River in the south-east of the area explored (AVH, accessed 10 May 2022).
Please cite as “FVM-83-10-06a,” 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