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GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 92.01.16b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Nicholas Holtze, 1892-01-16 [92.01.16b]. 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/1890-6/1892/92-01-16b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

16/1/92
Should you, dear Mr Holtze, come across
Sida Holtzei

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See N. Holtze to M, 7 March 1892 and M. to N. Holtze, 12 January 1892.
in a flowering state, will you then from a number of fresh blossoms ascertain:
1, if the styles are always 5
2, if the stigmas are always capitellate or sometimes decurrent.
3, if the flowers are always strictly bisexual.
Your worthy father
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Maurice Holtze.
writes, that he never cultivated
Aeschynomene aspera

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. So you added that species to the list of Austral plants. I hope to see him and your kind mother next week in Adelaide
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On a visit to meet with Sir Thomas Elder; see M to T. Wilson, 18 January 1892 (in this edition as 92-01-18a). M was met at the railway station in Adelaide on 19 January by SA's Attorney General (R. Homburg), Maurice Holtze and Otto Tepper. While in Adelaide, he also had discussions with Sir Samuel Davenport (South Australian chronicle, 23 January 1892, p. 12). He returned to Melbourne by the 'afternoon express' on 20 January (Express and telegraph (Adelaide), 21 January 1892, p. 3).
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Attending at the Tasmanian Meeting of the Austral Assoc
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M had only recently returned to Melbourne after attending the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Hobart; see M to N. Holtze, 12 January 1892.
has thrown my botanic work out of progress lately