To Ralph Tate   10 June 1884

10/6/84.

Private

 

In the Kew-Report, just issued,1 dear Professor, mention is made of the sending of a considerable lot of dried plants to the Herbarium from the Adel. Bot. Garden.2 Presumable they must have been Australian ones. I just mention this, as you are interested in the S. A. Flora, and probably duplicates were retained.

The Rev. Mr Kempe has sent me an Eucalyptus, which I regard as a form of E. oldfieldii.

With best remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Eucalyptus oldfieldii

1
The Gardeners' chronicle, 19 April 1884, p. 516 reports that the volume for 1882 of the Report on the progress and condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew had just been published after delays caused by the ill-health and absence of the Curator, and a further delay of six months in the press.
2
M and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk, were not on good terms.

Please cite as “FVM-84-06-10a,” 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 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-06-10a