28/7/88
Sie haben sich unnöthige Sorge gemacht, lieber Herr Tepper, in Bezug auf eine Beschreibung des Actinotus; denn es waren Ex. ohne Blüthen u Früchte, nach welchen ich die kurze Notiz gab. Ich danke für die Angabe der Seiten dieser Notizen, da ich solche quotiren will im Suppl zum Census. Ehe die Ausstellung vorüber sein wird, werde ich wohl nicht zu ruhigen litterarischen Arbeiten kommen. Mit dem Key bin ich nun zu den Liliaceen vorgerückt. Es wird für mich ein wahrer Freudentag sein, wenn er beendigt sein wird.
Freundschaftlich
Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
28/7/88
You have made unnecessary trouble for yourself, dear Mr Tepper, in reference to a description of the Actinotus;1 as they were specimens without flowers and fruits from which I gave the short note. I thank you for the details of the pages of these notes, since I intend to cite them in the supplement to the Census.2 Until the exhibition3 is over I shall probably not come to quiet literary work. With the Key4 I have now advanced to the Liliaceae. It will be a real day of rejoicing for me when it will be finished.
Amicably
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Actinotus
Liliaceae
See M to O. Tepper, 5 July 1888.
In B87.03.07, pp. 217-8, M cites this and other species from the 'fourth supplement' to B83.03.04, the manuscript of which was evidently 'ready' at the time of the 1888 Presidential address to the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria in May (A. H. S. Lucas (1888), p. 5). The MS was not however published. The material would have been incorporated into B89.05.03, which included additions to the census for 1886, 1887, and 1889; this species is listed on p. 4.
Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888-9.
B88.11.02.
Please cite as “FVM-88-07-28,” 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