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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Tyson   7 Jan 1894

7/1/94.

Let me thank you for the kind new sending of plants, also for the extensive information on the feeding value of some of your native plants. I will utilize these notes for the new edition of my work on "Select plants for industrial culture and naturalisation", which book, I think, was sent to you.1

Erodium and Stipa seem objectionable, as their pungent awns get into fleeces even the skin of sheep.

Have you ever heard any credible stories of the Natives about Leichhardts party and its fate. He must have perished in the as yet unexplored great N. W. desert, and Mess Gregory and myself could in 1856 not have been away very far from the death place of Leichhardt and his followers.

With best new years wishes your

Ferd von Mueller.

Would it do, to send native boys with baskets to the summit of Mt Narryer2 and other places, to bring all sorts of plants to you fresh reward being accorded to results.

Erodium

Stipa

1

The most recent edition was B91.09.01. Isaac Tyson is cited a number of times in B95.08.04, the next and final edition; he has not been found in the previous one.

2

WA.

3

MS black-edged; M's nephew George Ferdinand Doughty died on 19 November 1893.

Please cite as “FVM-94-01-07,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-01-07