8.3.84
To Baron von Mueller per "Adelaide"
1 Waddy Yorkes Pen.1
1 round Boomerang, Nuriootpa2
1 Fungus interior of Euc. viminalis
1 box Polypora Clarendon3
1 single, white, Mt Lofty Ranges,4 E. obliqua
1 parcel Sandarac
2 Resin of Grasstree (4angulat5
1 Gum Acacia pycnantha
1 " " retinodes
1 Kino E. leucoxylon
1 " " obliqua
1 spec. Lichens of stems of Mel. uncinata
Sent to Baron at his request6 but heard no more of the matter.7
Acacia pycnantha
Acacia retinodes
Eucalyptus leucoxylon
Eucalyptus obliqua
Eucalyptus obliqua
Eucalyptus viminalis
Melaleuca uncinata
Polyporus
Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata
Yorke Peninsula, SA.
SA.
Tepper was living at Clarendon, SA, at this time; Polypora are bryozoans, so presumably Tepper meant a collection of Polyporus species, fungi.
SA.
Abbreviation for quadangulata (i,e. the grass tree Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata)? There is no closing bracket.
See M to O. Tepper, 12 February 1884 and M to O. Tepper, 26 February 1884.
M did eventually acknowledge the material; see M to O. Tepper, 27 May 1884 (in this edition as 84-05-27a).
MS is written on a scrap of paper bound between pp. 512-3 of the bound volume of letters.
Please cite as “FVM-84-03-08,” 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