The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 26/11/87 ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Mr Tepper, for the consignment of fruit specimens of ¶ Acacia rhigiophylla ¶ that you have collected with so much trouble and prudence, and that will probably ripen l...

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RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 87.11.26b

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Acacia rhigiophylla
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Lemna minor
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Wollfia michelii
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1887-11-26 [87.11.26b]. 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/87-11-26b>, accessed September 10, 2025

MS annotation by Tepper: 'Reply 29.11.87'. Letter not found.

26/11/87

Besten Dank, lieber Herr Tepper, für die Sendung von Frucht-Exempl. der Ac. rhigiophylla, die Sie mit soviel Mühe u Umsicht zusammenbrachten, u die hier in Wasser gestellt wohl nachreifen werden. Im Text der Acacien, der wohl — deo volente — 1889 erscheinen wird, soll jedem Beiträger Gerechtigkeit werden. Die Exemplare werden auch für immer im Museum hier aufbewahrt. Bis jetz ist noch nicht bis ins Territorium von N.S.W. u V. verfolgt worden.

Sie ehrend

Der Ihre

Ferd. von Mueller.

Von mehreren Acacien, die in der Nähe von Hergotts Spring vorkommen, kennen wir auch die Früchte nicht, die vielleicht gelegentlich Hinauf-Reisende bringen würden. Bei genauem Suchen zwischen werden Sie dort gewiss auch Wollfia Michelii finden ein noch kleineres aber dickeres u wurzelloses Pflänzchen.

26/11/87

Best thanks, dear Mr Tepper, for the consignment of fruit specimens of

See M to O. Tepper, 7 November 1887 (in this edition as 87-11-07a), and M to O. Tepper, 17 November 1887 (in this edition as 87-11-17b).

that you have collected with so much trouble and prudence, and that will probably ripen later here placed in water. In the text of the Acacias that probably — God willing — will be published in 1889, justice will be done to each contributor.

Acacia rhigiophylls was illustrated in Decade IX of B88.09.01. However, no companion text was ever published in which 'contributors' could be acknowledged.

The specimens will also be kept in the museum here for ever. Until now has not been traced into the territory of New South Wales and Victoria.

Respectfully

Your

Ferd. von Mueller.

We also do not know the fruits of several Acacias that occur in the neighbourhood of Hergotts Springs,

Now Marree, SA.

which perhaps at some time travellers up there would bring. With close searching among you will certainly find there also Wollfia

Wolffia?

michelii, an even smaller but thicker and rootless little plant.