To David Lindsay1    15 October 1885

15/10/85

 

Herewith, dear Mr Lindsay, the seeds promised for your expedition.2 The wattle-seeds should be soaked for a night at each camp, where as a mark of your presence you may sow some. What else you sow may turn out edibles for the natives or other explorers hereafter, as doubtless some of the plants from these seeds would become naturalized. Could you reserve one or two of your new geographic localities for naming after some eminent persons in Europe?

I hope, you will take ample paper with you, (best a ream), so that you may have the means of drying a large number of different sorts of plants in flower or in fruit; the larger the material, the more extensive my Report afterwards; moreover I would willingly purchase the specimens.

Should you find traces of Leichhardt, please telegraph then to me direct, so that I may at once transmit the information to Prussia.

Wishing you a safe return and glorious success

your

Ferd. von Mueller.3

 
1
See also D. Lindsay to M, 26 September 1885, in this edition as 85-09-26a.
2
In late 1885, Lindsay led an expedition that explored the path of the Finke River in central Australia.
3
See also D. Lindsay to M, 21 October 1885 (in this edition as 85-10-21c) and H. Dittrich to M, December 1885.

Please cite as “FVM-85-10-15,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-10-15