4/3/95
Let me thank you, dear Madam, for your thoughtfulness in sending the reviving lichen. I found it on the Murray-River in my travels of 1848 already. Such specimens are always very acceptable for foreign interchanges. Could you induce children or Amateurs to collect for me any floating or submerged weeds there? The aquatic plants of your region have never yet been fully investigated. Can I send you anything very acceptable from here?
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Best compliments to my old friend, Mr Burkitt1
Does the Reverend Pastor Kempe live near you?
William Christopher Burkitt; see E. Burkitt to M, 16 July 1884.
Please cite as “FVM-95-03-04a,” 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