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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.07.08Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-07-08. 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/1880-9/1882/82-07-08-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
8/7/82.
I am much pleased, dear Prof Tate, with the consideration of the council of the R.S.
of SA.,
admitting of early successive publication of joint essays of ours. Excuse me, for
not having sent as yet more notes on your plants. The printer of the plant Census
here has overtaken me; and I was thus suddenly plunged into the greatest of all our
genera, Acacia, of which during the last 20 years huge additional material has accumulated
with me. In a few days I shall have ready what is required of Acacia for the Census,
and will give then some of
your
plants the first consideration. Excuse this time brevity, but this is a late hour
after a heavy days work and I feel very tired.
1
Royal Society of South Australia.
2
B83.03.04.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
You seem not to have read my
report
on the vegetation of North Australia, published in Hookers journal of 1858.
I have perused with deep interest your lecture.
3
William Hooker published several extracts from M's notes on his botanical observations
during the North Australian Exploring Expedition in his journal during 1857; see B57.06.02,
B57.07.01, B57.08.01. M's official report on the botany of the expedition was published
in 1858, in the journal of the Linnean Society rather than in Hooker's journal.
Acacia