The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Private ¶ 21/1/95 ¶ ¶ During some of the next weeks, dear Mr Rodway, questions, which gravely affect my branch of the public service, ¶ Continuing M's employment past the age of 65, which required th...

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Physical location:

ML DOC.2492, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 95.01.21

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Leonard Rodway, 1895-01-21. 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/1890-6/1895/95-01-21-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Private

21/1/95

During some of the next weeks, dear Mr Rodway, questions, which gravely affect my branch of the public service,

Continuing M's employment past the age of 65 , which required the approval of the Public Service Board, was under discussion from December 1894, as was the redeployment of his staff to other Departments. The position is documented in the notes to M to C. Topp, 26 February 1895.

will have to be solved, so that I have neither leisure nor tranquillity to work critically on plants of any kind. Wait therefore kindly a little longer for my giving opinions on your Carex and other recently sent plants. I have put all the Tasmanian plants, yet to be examined, together on my working table.

I wonder, you cannot muster Wolffia nor more Lemnas for Tasmania.

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd von Mueller.

Will you use my simplified form of DC's system for your Flora of Tasm.?

Rodway (1903) used the system of Hooker and Bentham, 'the one that is at present in use in most English-speaking communities', but acknowledged in his introduction the particular inadequacy of the monochlamydeae that formed a component of their system, and included M's alternative arrangement, and a more recent one by Warming, in an appendix.

Whatever you do, keep not up the chaotic Monochlamydeae.

I will send you in the course of this week typic specimens of the 3 plants, as desired by you. My Office is a long way from the Herbarium, so it can happen, that obtaining particular material out of it, about a million sheets, takes some time.

Carex

Lemna

Monochlamydeae

Wolffia