23/2/92
Es wird Sie freuen, lieber Herr Tepper, dass die von Ihrem Sohn gesandte Acacia N. 154, eine Art ist, von welcher ich bisher keine gute Frucht hatte, nämlich A bivenosa DC. Es wird daher jetzt möglich sein, solche für den Atlas zeichnen zu lassen
Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
23/2/92
It will please you, dear Mr Tepper, that the Acacia no. 154 sent by your son1 is a species of which previously I had no good fruit, namely A. bivenosa D.C. It will therefore now be possible to have it drawn for the atlas.2
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Acacia bivenosa
J. W. O. Tepper was telegraphist at Roebuck Bay, WA.
No more decades of Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and cognate genera were issued after Decade 13, which was ready for distribution in August 1888 (B88.13.01). The library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, holds a number of additional drawings of Acaciae prepared for M that were not published, but no drawing of A. bivenosa has been found.
MS annotation by Tepper: 'Reply 29.2.92'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-92-02-23,” 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