The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Mt. Macedon, ¶ 30./11/83. ¶ ¶ I replied to your Kang. Isl. letter yesterday, ¶ dear Prof Tate, and revised also the proof of the several new plants. If not too late, you might make a slight alterat...

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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 83.11.30

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-11-30. 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/1880-9/1883/83-11-30-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Mt. Macedon,

Vic.

30./11/83.

I replied to your Kang. Isl. letter yesterday,

See M to R. Tate, 29 November 1883.

dear Prof Tate, and revised also the proof of the several new plants. If not too late, you might make a slight alteration in the definition of the ; as some times 2 flowers occur on a stalk, it would be better regarded as a peduncle, than as a pedicel.

See B83.14.02, p. 109, where Murrayi is described, with the stalks still referred to as pedicels.

You are quite right in identifying and .

So soon as I return to Melbourne I will look up some of your desiderata. The whole will be a matter of time. The lithographer in the Mines Department

Richard Shepherd.

was ill; so we have not commenced yet the drawing of fossil leaves;

See also M to R. Tate, 17 November 1883 (in this edition as 83-11-17a).

as I am poorly yet, it will be best to keep back the Central Austr. fossil leaves for the present, unless you have duplicates of each.

The lithographer is new to this kind of work; so I have to spend some time with him, and will take the miocene leaves from the Bacchus Marsh District

Vic.

first, which are imbedded in an indurated ferrugineous clay; after he got a little experience, I shall be exceedingly glad to take yours up also, if you will kindly provide the material.

No work by M describing Bacchus Marsh fossil plants has been found.

My general health is somewhat invigorated in the pure light air; but my cough remains obstinate.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

Are no fruits with the fossil leaves of C. A.?

Central Australia.