28/9/89
Best thanks, dear Mr Moore, for your attentiveness in sending the specimens of Euc. Globul.1 The new locality will be recorded under your honored name.
I forward to you tracings from the Flora Tasmaniae of three plants, of which the ripe fruits hitherto remained quite unknown. All three grow on the mountains of your district. Among the youths at any place is usually some one with a leaning towards collecting plants. If such one can be found any where in the most western regions of Tasmania, I would pay him £2-. -. (two £) for each hundred of different species of plants, if the specimens are properly selected, well pressed and carefully dried. Fruiting specimens as acceptable as flowering specimens2 A young person might readily earn thus in this way £10-. during this season by gathering and preparing 500 species of different kind of plants. Many more may be collected in any part of the far western mountains and at the coast there, if mosses (in fruit) and seaweeds are also included.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Do you like to join the RGS. of England? I will gladly be your sponsor3
Eucalyptus globulus
Eucalyptus globulus. See T. B. Moore to M, 17 September 1889.
Fruiting … specimens is a marginal note with its intended location marked with an asterisk.
No record of a nomination has been found.
A photocopy of the MS is held at RB MSS M30, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. MS annotation [by Moore?]: '21.10.89'.
Please cite as “FVM-89-09-28,” 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