14/6/93.
Ihr letzter Brief, lieber Herr Tepper, ist verlegt, wie es scheint, in meinem Bureau; aber inter alia erinnere ich daraus, dass Sie Ihre Series der Fragmenta zu ergänzen wünschen; ich habe nur noch vol. II, VI, VIII, IX complete, aber ungebunden und XI fast complet. Recht gern will ich 1 Exemplar irgend eines dieser Bände senden.
Ihre genauen Arbeiten in der Entomologie machen Ihnen alle Ehre, u Sie finden ja sogar noch Neues in der Nähe von Adelaide.
Spornen Sie Ihren jungen Sohn nur an, die Frühlings Monate nicht unbenutzt zu lassen für Pflanzen-Sammeln, da er doch gewiss nach Insekten für Sie spährt. Am Besten wäre es, wenn er — in soweit — seine Aufmerksamkeit ganz auf kleine annuelle Pflanzen concentrirte, deren manche wohl Drummond, der die Gegend von Beverley nur einmal besuchte, entgangen sein mögen. Ich machte nur einen flüchtigen Ritt dahin u zwar im Sommer, wie die kleinsten Frühlingspflanzen schon ganz verdörrt waren.
Sie ehrend, der Ihr
Ferd. von Mueller.
Endlich komme ich nun wieder zu den Elder-Pflanzen. Die Störung von Brisbane aus hat auch recht viel Zeit verschlungen.
14/6/93.
Your last letter, dear Mr Tepper, is mislaid, it seems, in my office; but inter alia I remember from it that you desire to complete your series of the Fragmenta; I have still only vols. II, VI, VIII, IX complete, but unbound and XI almost complete. I will very gladly send you 1 copy of any of these volumes.
Your meticulous work in entomology does you great credit and indeed you are still finding something new even in the neighbourhood of Adelaide.
Just spur on your young son1 not to let the spring months be unused for plant collecting, since he certainly does look out for insects for you. It would be best, in this respect, if he concentrated his attention completely on small annual plants, of which some probably may have eluded Drummond,2 who only visited the area of Beverley once. I made only one fleeting ride there and in fact in summer, when the smallest spring plants were already quite withered.3
Respectfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
At last I now come again to the Elder plants.4 The disturbance from Brisbane5 has also consumed very much time.
J. W. O. Tepper, who was living at Beverley, WA.
James Drummond.
In November 1877, on his trip towards York, WA.
B93.02.03 and B93.14.07 were based upon reports said to have been read to the Royal Society of SA on 2 August 1892, but not published there. Publication of the complete report upon which M now resumed work was delayed; it appeared as B96.14.02 (see Lucas 2018), p. 816).
The attempt to gather support for F. M. Bailey's writing a supplement to Flora australiensis, rather than leaving it to M (see F. Bailey to M, March 1893 (in this edition as 93-03-00b), and M to O. Tepper, 4 May 1893).
MS annotation by Tepper: 'Reply 18.6.93'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-93-06-14a,” 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