The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 4/3/95 ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Madam, for your thoughtfulness in sending the reviving lichen. I found it on the Murray-River in my travels of 1848 already. Such specimens are always very acceptabl...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellen Burkitt, 1895-03-04 [95.03.04a]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-03-04a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

4/3/95

Let me thank you, dear Madam, for your thoughtfulness in sending the reviving lichen. I found it on the Murray-River in my travels of 1848 already. Such specimens are always very acceptable for foreign interchanges. Could you induce children or Amateurs to collect for me any floating or submerged weeds there? The aquatic plants of your region have never yet been fully investigated. Can I send you anything very acceptable from here?

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller

Best compliments to my old friend, Mr Burkitt

William Christopher Burkitt; see E. Burkitt to M, 16 July 1884.

Does the Reverend Pastor Kempe live near you?