This time, dear Mr. Webb, I would merely ask whether it would be possible for you to induce the editor of your local newspaper,1 who has always shown himself so friendly to my establishment to ask settlers on or near salt bush country to send me specimens with ripe seeds (fruit) of those salt bushes on which herds and flocks browse with predilection. I desire to fix the names of the W.A. best salt bushes for my work on select plants.2 We learnt with scientific exactitude gradually which particular species are the best throughout the Eastern Colonies for re-sowing where the salt bushes are getting eaten out by pastoral animals. So many of the W.A. salt bushes and salt herbs are peculiar to your territory that I would like to elicit precise information as to which of the sorts are most praiseworthy.
Australian advertiser (Albany). See, for example, M to W. Webb, August 1895 (in this edition as 95-08-00i). The item, without the comment about the editor, was republished by other WA newspapers; see B96.01.02 and linked items.
M was planning a 10th edition of this work for 1897 (see M to G. Schweinfurth, 25 June 1896), but he died before this was completed. The last English-language edition to appear was the 9th, B95.08.04.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The W. A. Salt Bush. Request from Baron von Mueller', Australian advertiser (Albany, WA), 16 January 1896, p. 3 (B96.01.05). It is introduced by ' BARON VON MUELLER has written as follows to Mr. W. Webb, Naturalist, Albany :—'.
Please cite as “FVM-96-01-00d,” 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