241. Kennedya prostrata, R. Br.
244. Glycine clandestina, Wendland
239. Acianthus exsertus, R. Br.
242. Pterostylis vittata, Lindley (rare)
The new locality will be recorded under your name.
243. Scleranthus pungens, R. Br.
Ripe seeds valuable, but perhaps not easily for you obtainable in Summer.
240. Baeckea diffusa, Sieber
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Are still relations of the Geologist Spottiswood Wilson living at Encounter Bay.1 He was like myself in the North-West Austr. Exploring Expedition 1855-1856.
Acianthus exsertus
Baeckea diffusa
Glycine clandestina
Kennedya prostrata
Pterostylis vittata
Scleranthus pungens
James Spottiswoode Wilson's second daughter was born at Encounter Bay, but she did not remain there: she died at her home in Esperance, WA, in 1903 (Albany advertiser, 2 December 1903, p. 4). Wilson had siblings in South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, some of whom later settled in Western Australia. Wilson married Sarah Spotswood, a cousin; some of her family migrated to SA in the 1840s. Although there were Wilsons and Spotswoods (possibly relatives of his wife) at Encounter Bay and nearby in the 1890s, none has been positively identified as his relative.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
Names used by M match, or are a synonym of, the names used in MEL (AVH, accessed 4 August 2024; APC, accessed 17 September 2024). They were collected in 1894 with the final four given as June 1894. M's letter is therefore dated to June 1894 as the earliest that he could have sent it.
Please cite as “FVM-94-06-00g,” 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