From Robert Thom   4 August 1885

St Andrews College, Sandhurst1

4/8/85

Dear Sir

Accept my sincere thanks for the lists & extracts.

I have sent on your request to my correspondent at Wagga;2 I have written to our Presbyterian Minister at Silverton3 & also to others about collecting plants. I do not think that our Church Periodical circulates in S. Australia, but if I can hear of any one likely to help I shall write him privately. I have got many promises but they come to little.

I have written several times to the Sec. of Lin. Soc, but can get no reply. A brother at home at last got receipt for my last subscription which he sent to me. I got a friend to call for such publications as were due to me – but the Sec. put him off with the reply that he would see about it . I wrote again last March instructing the Sec. to send my publications through the same agent as sends Dr McGillivray’s of this town – but no reply. Should my bookseller at home call for them – the friend who called had a written note from me. I am very sorry to trespass on your valuable time, but if you can suggest to me what I should do, you will much oblige.4

Yours sincerely

R Thom

 

I have sent on the seeds of Euchlaena to several squatters. The plant does not endure the frosts of Sandhurst. My plants do not ripen – perhaps they were sown too late, but from the plants that grew with me, it is evidently a first rate forage plant.5

 

Euchlaena

1
Now Bendigo, Vic.
2
NSW.
3
NSW
4
See M to B. D. Jackson, 9 August 1885 (in this edition as 85-08-09a). M has annotated Thom’s letter “Answ 9/8/85”, but the letter to Thom has not been found.
5
M provides an extensive entry for Euchlaena in all editions of Select extra-tropical plants, first under E. luxurians and then E. mexicana.

Please cite as “FVM-85-08-04,” 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/85-08-04