The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 17/6/96. ¶ ¶ Could you make arrangements, dear Krichauff, to have the South Australian Government Expedition under Mr Hübbe also to collect the rarer plants on the return journey, and if possible als...

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No. 1415‑1896, GRG 35/1, Correspondence files, Crown Lands Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 96.06.17

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Krichauff, 1896-06-17. 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/96-06-17>, accessed September 11, 2025

17/6/96.

Könntest Du es veranlassen, lieber Krichauff, dass die S.A. Gouvernm Expedition unter Mr Hübbe, auch die seltneren Pflanzen auf dem Rückwege sammelt, u wenn möglich auch die allerkleinsten Pflänzchen, welche in den Wüsten artenreich sind, u unter Denen sich mehr Neues finden liesst, als unter den grösseren Gewächsen. Es handelt sich ja auch um weitere Feststellung der Verbreitungs Areal auch der Miniatur Pflanzen.

Ist Mr Hübbe ein Sohn des Dr Hübbe?, der mir in den 40 Jahren des Jahrhunderts dort kannten?

Neulich hatte ich wieder einen Brief von Ohrt. Wie geht es Euch allen u namentlich Deinem venerablen Schwieger Vater? Immer in Freundschaft Dein

Ferd von Mueller

Der beigefügte Brief von dem Magistrate Panton, der zu unserem geographischen Concil

Council?

gehört.

17/6/96.

Could you make arrangements, dear Krichauff, to have the South Australian Government Expedition under Mr Hübbe also to collect the rarer plants on the return journey, and if possible also the very smallest plants that are rich in species in the desert, and among which more new things can be found than among the larger plants. This also concerns the further determination of the area of distribution even of the miniature plants.

Is Mr Hübbe a son of the Dr Hübbe who knew me there in the 40s of the century?

Samuel Hübbe, leader of the South Australian Exploring Expedition, was the son of Dr Ulrich Hübbe.

Recently I again had a letter from Ohrt.

Near Oldenburg, Germany? No letters addressed from this place have been found.

How are you all and especially your venerable father-in-law?

Always in friendship your

Ferd von Mueller

The file includes a translation, in Krichauff's hand, of the first paragraph of M's letter, and also a letter from Krichauff to SA’s Commissioner of Crown Lands, P. P. Gillen, that reads, in part, 'I have been requested by my friend Baron Ferd. von Mueller to ask you to instruct Mr Hübbe to collect the smaller plants on his return journey. As this will not be a great incumbrance I hope you will agree to give at least a hint to Mr Hübbe that the collection of these plants would be desirable. I enclose Baron von Mueller's letter.' AVH records no specimens collected by Hübbe in MEL (accessed 7 December 2022).

The enclosed letter from the magistrate Panton, who belongs to our geographical Council.

See J. Panton to M, 14 June 1896 (in this edition as 96-06-14b). Krichauff also forwarded Panton's letter to Gillen.