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Physical location:

RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.05.04

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1893-05-04. 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/93-05-04>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS annotation by Tepper: 'Reply 18.5.93 [letter not found] Prof. Tate must initiate I cannot do it.'
4/5/93
Es würde rathsam sein, lieber Herr Tepper, dass die Signaturen derjenigen Botaniker von S.A.'s bald erlangt würden, welche die Vervollständigung der Flora Austral. durch mich begünstigen. Ich habe Mr Maiden denselben Rath gegeben für N.S.W. Lesen Sie doch Tryons Artikel Ende April im Queenslander.
Eiligst aber freundlichst
Ihre
Ferd. von Mueller.
4/5/93
It would be advisable, dear Mr Tepper, that the signatures be got soon of those botanists of South Australia who favour the completion of the Flora australiensis by me. I have given the same advice to Mr Maiden for New South Wales. Do read Tryon's article in the Queenslander at the end of April.
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See Queenslander, 29 April 1893, pp. 783-4, for a report of a meeting of the local Natural History Society of 20 April 1893 at which Henry Tryon read a paper 'Baron von Mueller's systematic arrangement of Australian plants' that explained and defended the reform in botanical systematics that M was advocating, namely to do away with the Monochlamydeae. An earlier newspaper article (Tryon (1893)) had defended M's claim to the supplement to Flora australiensis (i.e. Bentham (1883-78)).
Most hastily but most amicably
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.