Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 91.02.00

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1891-02. 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/1890-6/1891/91-02-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

1
AVH data (accessed 19 February 2022) show that specimen 201 was collected in September 1890, the rest in January 1891 with the latest, numbers 203-205, on 27 January. February is thus the earliest that the list could have been prepared, and it is dated accordingly.
203,
Eremophila Macdonnelli

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204,
Cassia desolata

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205,
Frankenia

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206,
Crinum flaccidum

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201,
Polygonum prostratum

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208,
Comesperma polygaloides

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Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
It is extremely pleasing to me, that I can now gratulate you to the well deserved honor of being into the long celebrated Linnean Society!
2
Giill was elected to the Linnean Society of London on 4 December 1890. See his nomination certificate, on which M was one of the signatories, September 1890 (in this edition as 90-09-00). Gill's election was reported in South Australian register, 19 January 1891, p. 5, and in newspapers in other colonies later.