The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 20/9/82. ¶ ¶ It is ¶ only ¶ through your msc., dear Professor, that I now notice the occurrence of several errors, regards localities, in the Census. ¶ The most glaring occur in Trachymene and Iso...

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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 82.09.20a

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Comesperma defoliatum
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-09-20 [82.09.20a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-09-20a-final.odt>, accessed May 9, 2026

20/9/82.

It is only through your msc., dear Professor, that I now notice the occurrence of several errors, regards localities, in the Census.

B83.03.04.

The most glaring occur in and .

and are ticked, presumably by Tate.

How I missed correcting them, is an enigma to me, as I twice revise the proof sheets; but this is often at late night hours, so that the passing of isolated letters at wrong places is pardonable; possibly the letters may have become transposed or disarranged finally in the printing establishments. I am glad, that I had my attention drawn to the subject, so that I can rectify the main mistakes at the end of the volume under "errata".

B83.03.04. There is no errata list per se , but the 'additional annotations' include corrections to geographical distribution; for example, on p. 142, cirrosa and asper are noted as not occurring in SA and Vic, or in SA, Tas and Vic, respectively, as stated earlier in the work.

In reference to the Hibisc.

Hibiscus.

Huegelii,

Hibisc. and Comesperma are ticked, presumably by Tate.

& a few others I remain in doubt; so it will be best to omit them for the present,

Tate was working on a list of additions to the list of the flora of SA, originally published as Tate (1880). The species mentioned are not included in Tate (1882) or Tate (1882b); the Hibiscus is recorded as H. wrayae in Tate (1889a), p. 76.

as other addenda will occur hereafter. When the whole Census is printed I will go gradually through the whole Herbarium & add and correct the colonial notations

As regards the bid

bit?

of sketch map with geologic coloring, that is not to forestal

forestall?

greater works of your own, but merely to serve as material for an other public lecture, to be given after some months.

The next known lecture by M was delivered to the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church Literary Association, of which he was Patron, on Tuesday 24 April; his topic was 'The future of Australia'. He gave the same lecture to the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society on 6 July 1883 (Australasian, 14 July 1883, p. 18). No published version has been found, but the short description in 'Recent meetings', Argus, 28 April 1883, p. 11 suggests that its themes were used again in his address prepared for the Brisbane 1895 meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, B96.04.10.

Regardfully

your

Ferd von Mueller

Mr J. E. Brown

J. Ednie Brown.

has sent Euc.

Eucalyptus.

cosmophylla from near Port Lincoln.