Document information

Physical location:

No. 588, folder 30, series 4, MS 610 Deane family papers, National Library of Australia, Canberra. 90.03.18

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Deane, 1890-03-18. 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/1890-6/1890/90-03-18-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

18/3/90
Towards the end of 1889, dear Mr Deane, I was obliged, to lay much work aside, partly with a view to write extra of daily routine-engagements the descriptions of Sir W. Macgregor's highland-plants of New Guinea,
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partly to work for the Melb meeting of the Austral Association.
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The second Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science was held in Melbourne in January 1890. M was President.
Thus, among other sendings also your Angophora was laid aside, and comes now only before me again in the endeavour, to clear off arrear-work. If you were not so positive about declaring it different from A. intermedia, I should have taken it as a var . of that species. Could it be a hybrid between A. intermedia & A subvelutina? We have to be very guarded in establishing new species in cases like these.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller
Kindly try, to find, if even in leaves only,
Aldrovanda vesiculosa

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Utricularia

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and other submerged plants.