The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 30/8/82. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Ramsay, I have received the beautiful red seaweed (unfortunately without fruit) and the other algs, also the Clathrus? in Alcohol. All shall be examined and for all thi...

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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.08.30

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Clathrus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-08-30. 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/82-08-30>, accessed September 11, 2025

30/8/82.

This day, dear Mr Ramsay, I have received the beautiful red seaweed (unfortunately without fruit) and the other algs, also the ? in Alcohol. All shall be examined and for all this and former sendings you shall have credit publicly. Only let me mention, my dear friend, that the two little parcels (algs & the little bottle) cost each 2/6 freight and each 2/6 customs entry, therefore 10/; but this is not the worst; it involves as much loss of time to clear little things at the Customs as small

large intended?

things, so that my assistant had to spend some hours to get these things, we living away from Melbourne. Nothing is easier than to send small parcels by post ! Things in Alcohol can be taken out of it after a few days & be sent in an empty phial by post or in a little tin box (matchbox, small jar &c).

The sprig from Mr Bennett has not arrived; but from his note, there can be no doubt, that the resin

Probably the resin from the Lachlan River, NSW, referred to in M to E. Ramsay, 16 August 1882 (in this edition as 82-08-16a).

was obtained from RBr. Could Mr Bennett procure some more of this for experiments here,

See M to E. Ramsay, 22 September 1882 (in this edition as 82-09-22c). the reference is to K. H. Bennett, who collected at the Lachlan River; see George (2009).

as so little of the technical value of the is known. I have alluded to the saccharine excrescences of this tree in former publication,

'M. platycarpum of the deserts, adjoining the Murray-River, exudes from its stem a saccharine secretion, of which the native tribes used to be very fond ' (B77-08-01, p. 111).

but do not know for certain, whether it is merely a condensation of eliquescent

Not in OED. Perhaps intended by M as the converse of 'deliquescent'?

sap.

Regardfully your.

Ferd. von Mueller.