Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M97, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.03.00i

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1892-03 [92.03.00i]. 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/92-03-00i>, accessed September 11, 2025

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Annotation by Tepper: 'W.A. 2.4.92', presumably recording the date when he wrote to WA as M requested. M's letter is dated to late March 1892, as the latest it could have been written to reach Tepper by 2 April.
22 & 23 & 21
Helipterum Cassinianum

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, D.C.
18,
Cephalipterum Drummondi

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, Asa Gray.
Die meisten Namen, lieber Herr Tepper, schickte ich schon gestern ab, von den Pflanzen aus Yilgarn. Ermuthigen Sie die junge Dame dort, ganz besonders, die kleinsten Frühlingspflanzen, welche so leicht unberücksichtigt bleiben, u doch so leicht zu senden sind, sorgfältig zu beobachten und zu sammeln.
Können Sie mir, selbst durch eine kleine Bezahlung, zu einer nicht ganz geringen Menge von von frischen
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Früchte verhelfen bald ? Ich behielte gern wenigstens von den Characeen Australiens das Material für meine Hände zur Sendung an Dr Nordsted, sollten Sie etwas für die Monographie senden wollen. Eben beginnt hier die Umwälzung mit äusserst veringerten Mitteln, was mir tiefe Sorge u endlose Arbeit macht. Also gehe ich diesmal auf Ihre meteorologische Notizen nicht ein.
Freundschaftlich
Ferd. von Mueller.
Ob die Dame in Yilgarn wohl Freundinnen an der Quellen des Murchison R. hat, woher ich gern Pflanzen hatte.
Jetzt hat es ja in N.W. Austral geregnet. Die Schwarzen würden vielleicht in Körben Ihren Sohn frische Pfl bringen, wofür ich etwas zahlen will.
22 & 23 & 21 Helipterum cassinianum D.C.
18, Cephalipterum drummondi Asa Gray.
The majority of names of the plants from Yilgarn, dear Mr Tepper, I already sent off yesterday.
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An additional name was included in M to O. Tepper, 5 April 1892. The previous list has not been identified, and no 'young lady' from Yilgarn, WA, is included in Maroske & Vaughan (2014).
Encourage the young lady there, quite particularly, to observe carefully and to collect the smallest spring plants, which remain so easily unnoticed and yet are so easy to send.
Can you help me, even through a small payment, to get a not insignificant number of fresh
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fruits soon ? I would gladly keep the material at hand at least of the
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of Australia for sending to Dr Nordstedt, should you want to send anything for the monograph. The radical change is just beginning here with very reduced funds, which will cause deep trouble and endless work for me. Therefore I will not go into your meteorological notes at this time.
Amicably
Ferd von Mueller.
I wonder if the woman in Yilgarn has friends at the sources of the Murchison River, from whence I would gladly have plants.
Now it has indeed rained in N. W. Australia. The Blacks would perhaps bring your son fresh plants in baskets , for which I will pay something.