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RAS/B.13 (11), Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 75.03.02

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Francis Abbott, 1875-03-02. 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//letters/1870-9/1875/75-03-02-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

Melbourne,
2/3/75
In working on Chaetospora to day, dear Mr Abbott, I have found that Dr. Hookers name of
Chaetospora capillacea

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will have to be changed, in as much as a good species from South Africa received precisely that name by Nees von Esenbeck long before Dr. Hooker published his Tasmanian species.
1
Nees von Esenbeck (1836), p. 192; J. Hooker (1860), vol 2, pp. 81-2.
The name of the latter I propose to change in Chaetospora capillaris , and I should feel obliged, if you will make the necessary alteration in the Census
2
B75.13.10, p. 93.
list with the following quotation F.M.fragm. IX, 30 .
3
B75.03.01, p. 34, not p. 30 as M stated.
Regardfully your
Ferd.von Mueller.