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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 83.00.00b

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883 [83.00.00b]. 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/1880-9/1883/83-00-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
MS comprises two separate pages of notes and may not be from the same letter. They have been linked together here because of their common subject-matter and the combination has been dated on the basis of what is said in the second note.
In the 7th vol. of the fragm p. 40 (1869) I gave a short list of plants from Schultz's Port Darwin collection,
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B69.10.01 is an enumeration of plants collected by Frederick Schultze, probably up to the second two consignment he sent to Adelaide in May 1869 (Wallis (2020)).
so far as I had them either obtained or examined at that time. In the later volumes of the fragmenta occasionally Port Darwin plants are mentioned and several as new described; in the 5th, 6th & 7th vol. of the Flora Australiensis the plants of Mr Schultz, so far as they belonged to the orders of those three volumes are inserted as set after set became accessible to Mr Bentham
Mr Alexander Forrest's party collected also some plants at Port Darwin; but in my enumeration of the plants of his Expedition, as partly published in a parlamentary paper in West Australia,
3
B81.03.02.
and partly in the transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales two years ago,
4
B81.13.04.
I have not included the Port Darwin portion of Forrest's collection, as so many plants from thence had been recorded already.