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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.08.08a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-08-08 [82.08.08a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/82-08-08a>, accessed May 5, 2025

8/8/82.
I write this two hours after midnight, dear Prof Tate, so I shall not be very diffuse. It will afford me great pleasure to be one of your sponsors at the R.S.
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Royal Society [of London].
this or any other year. You well deserve that distinction. I was not aware that Prof. Liversidge was also a competitor just now. Is it really so? I should almost have thought he would have asked for my support, as I am with him on terms of friendship.
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Archibald Liversidge was first nominated for the Royal Society in 1880, and was elected in 1882. There were no Australian signatories to his nomination certificate; his candidature was organized entirely in England. Tate was first nominated in 1884 with M as his primary sponsor, his candidature continuing, always unsuccessfully, until 1886. There were some British signatories on his nomination certificate, but most were from Australia and New Zealand. See M to R. Tate, 7 October 1882.
Mr Oliver writes me that his plants are collected from one mile W. of Eucla
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SA.
to 40 miles W. I believe that the
Swainsona

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has a wide range over the limestone country,
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Swainsona

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oliveri , described as S. oliverii in B82.07.04, p. 152. A herbarium sheet carrying a specimen of
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oliveri (MEL 679194) also has attached to it a small sheet, probably the address panel of a package or envelope, with the text:
Eucla 2/6 – 1882
From Mr John Oliver
To Baron Ferd Von Mueller
Melbourne
Victoria
The sheet also has M's label, '
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oliverii | F.v. M. | Near Eucla | Ped. 1-2 fl.'
but I shall learn more about that in my next letter from him.
I have been so harrassed with work in the Department, that with the best will I could not attend to everything just now, but will send the
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back in a day or two or a drawing
I am grateful for your geologic remarks concerning Eucla, which give me a better insight into the geography of the plants there.
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd von Mueller.