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Physical location:

RB MSS M20, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.02.28

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ralph Tate to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-02-28. 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/1890-6/1892/92-02-28-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of
Acacia

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cultriformis (MEL 2073683).
Dawesley
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SA.
February 28, 1892
My Dear Baron,
On my way to Nairne
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SA.
en route for Adelaide on Wednesday last, I was thrown from the buggy and though I continued my journey, yet on arrival at Adelaide found that I could not give that concentrated attention which a judicious selection of
Acacia

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spp demanded, consequently I was unable to comply with your request.
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Request letter not found.
I return to Adelaide permanently in about a fortnight.
On the day following the accident I slept to late in the afternoon, which seemed to indicate some nervous derangement; however on Friday I was myself again.
By an inadvert oversight,
Bassia sclerolaenoides

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was so named on a slip within the sheet, but the cover was marked with
Kochia

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, which had reference to a former enclosure
Your
Atriplex elachophyllum

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appears to me to have the fruit-caylx entirely closed.
Chenopodium aff rhadinostachy . seems to differ by the entire margin of the calyx-segments, compressed seeds, whilst the axillary panicles may merely be an elongation of the branchlets with its spike-like clusters of C. rhadinostachyum
Yrs very sincerely
Ralph Tate
P.S.
Our Royal Society is addressing your Government, re curtailment of your usefulness through reduction of subsidy for publication of your research-results. I hope sincerely that the aim may be accomplished
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See report of the meeting of the Royal Society of SA held on 1 March 1892 (Express and telegraph (Adelaide), 2 March 1892, p. 6.