Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 89.00.00l

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1889 [89.00.00l]. 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/89-00-00l>, accessed September 11, 2025

1
None of the specimens named are now at MEL and so the date of the letter cannot be inferred from collection dates. Specimens numbered 7-30 are listed in M to W. Gill, 14 December 1888, while specimens 35-38 are listed in M to W. Gill, 20 August 1889. M's lists broadly follow the sequence of Gill's collection numbers, and the Item is dated to 1889 on the presumption that it preceded the August 1889 list; it is not possible, however, to infer the likely month.
34,
Spergularia rubra

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, Persoon.
33,
Goodenia albiflora

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, Schlechtendal.
32,
Cynanchum floribundum

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, RBrown.
31.
Aster axillaris

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, F.v.Mueller.
There will be no difficulty, dear Mr Gill, to realize your wish, that a new plant should be named after you, because among minute weeds , which come up in early spring many absolute novelties must yet occur there. But all your plants for such purposes, should be collected as well in fruit as in flower.
2
No species named by M for Gill has been found (IPNI, accessed 10 February 2021).
The Decades of the Acacias
3
B87.13.08, B88.13.10.
and what you want of the Decades of the Eucalypts
4
It is not known which decades Gill required; the final decade was B84.11.02.
can be obtained from the Gov Printing Office here by purchase; or you might instruct a South-Australian Bookseller, to order these publications for you from the Melbourne Gov. Printing Office. I purchase there for private gifts over £50 -. - annually myself on my own expenses
With best compliments your
Ferd. von Mueller