The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 30/9/84 ¶ ¶ I am only just back from a departmental tour to the neighboorhood of Lake Hindmarsh, ¶ dear Mr Ramsay, and am overwhelmed with arrear-work. I will however just write a few lines in ackno...

Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 84.09.30

Plant names

Davallia
Search for Davallia in
Dipodium punctatum
Search for Dipodium punctatum in
Eulophia
Search for Eulophia in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1884-09-30. 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/1880-9/1884/84-09-30-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

30/9/84

I am only just back from a departmental tour to the neighboorhood of Lake Hindmarsh,

Vic. See M to G. Berry, 28 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-28a).

dear Mr Ramsay, and am overwhelmed with arrear-work. I will however just write a few lines in acknowledgment of your kind letter and friendly sending.

Letter not found.

The orchid from the New Hebrides is a true Dipodium, as you remarked, not an . It accords in its labellum and most other respects with D. punctatum, but it will need a careful comparison of the N. Caledon, Polynes

New Caledonian, Polynesian.

and Indian Species to say positively, what this species is. I will examine it carefully, so soon as I get leisure.

The fern is a well known , but I forgot its specific name, and must hunt it up.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.