To William Thiselton-Dyer   6 March 1894

6/3/94.1

 

My best thanks are due to you, dear Dr Dyer, for sending me the xylographic portion of your new Kew Museum's Guide.2 What riches you have under your surveillance! all so instructively accessible.

It will interest Sir Joseph to hear that the Rev John Bufton has found Damasonium australe in Tasmania, rather copiously in the nothern portion of Tasman’s peninsula, therefore not very far from Hobart.3 Such a plant is easily overlooked in swamps among grasses and other herbs. This with Isoetopsis makes among new records for the Tasmanian Flora 2 additional genera.

the first steam-whaler in Australian Waters has brought a lading of Seal-Oil and Seal-skins, it is a Norwegian ship, which made this debut.4 It will doubtless be the commentment5 of a large industry. In the R. geographic Soc. of Austr. we have worked during a dozen years for it.6 This mornings telegrams announce a munificent private gift to the RGS for an other north-polar expedition by Mr Holdsworth.7

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd von Mueller

 

Damasonium australe

Isoetopsis

1
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 9.APR 94. and annotated by J. Hooker: JDH 10/4/94.
2
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (1893).
3
It will interest … Hobart is marked with a blue pencil line in the margin.
4
See 'The barque Antarctic', Argus , 26 February 1894, p. 4, col. b.
5
commencement?
6
See Home et al. (1992).
7
Alfred C. Harmsworth, later first Viscount Northcliffe, funded an expedition by F. G. Jackson. See Harmsworth (1894), Jackson (1894), Savitt and Lüdecke (2007). A brief note appeared in the Argus, 3 March 1894, p. 9. col. h.

Please cite as “FVM-94-03-06,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-03-06