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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.05.29a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-05-29 [82.05.29a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-05-29a-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

29/5/82.
In writing to you, dear Prof. Tate, I forgot to mention, that Gregorys Report on the North Australian Expedition is contained in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of 1858.
1
A. Gregory (1858). The previous letter in the file is M to R. Tate, 12 May 1882 (in this edition as 82-05-12b). It seems from that letter that Tate was reviewing proofs of M's census of Australian plant species (B83.03.04), no doubt — in view of his own expertise — chiefly focusing on SA plants on which Gregory's report would have been highly relevant, the NT being administered at the time as part of SA.
You will see now yourself, that it best to give up the
Monochlamydeae

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, when you compare
Polycarpaea

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with
Gomphrena

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(&c &c), which Bentham & Hooker still keep far asunder.
2
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
I will in a few days write something more about several of the plants left unexamined.
3
M to R. Tate, 16 June 1882 (in this edition as 82-06-16a)?
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
The "Quinintree" of which you sent the capsules =
Petalostigma quadriloculare

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. It contains no Quinin.
4
After he erected the genus in B57.13.01, p. 17, M supplied samples of the bark of
Petalostigma quadriloculare

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to G. Wittstein that were analysed by Falco (1866).