The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 9/8/90 ¶ ¶ Let me offer my best felicitation, dear Mr Gill, to your promotion, so well deserved. ¶ You will fill the important position with dignity and efficiency. When you write to Mr Brown, kindl...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 90.08.09

Plant names

Styphelia patula
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1890-08-09. 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/1890-6/1890/90-08-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

9/8/90

Let me offer my best felicitation, dear Mr Gill, to your promotion, so well deserved.

Gill was appointed Conservator of Forests in SA in succession to John Ednie Brown, following the latter's appointment as Director-General of Forests in NSW.

You will fill the important position with dignity and efficiency. When you write to Mr Brown, kindly convey to him also my congratulation, and express to him my readiness, to afford him also in his new position any information, which he may seek from me and which may be within my reach. I am pleased at the prospect of you advancing, while now in supreme command, still more extensively our knowledge of the S.A. plants.

The one, just received, N. 101, is , Sprengel. It was only known from the coast before and then merely from a few places.

Regardfully

yours

Ferd. von Mueller.