The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden, ¶ 15 June 1858 ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I have to express my warm thanks for your friendly revisal of the Acaciae; which I brought from North Australia. My paper thus having re...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 44. 58.06.15

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1858-06-15. 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/58-06-15>, accessed November 15, 2024

In addition to a cancellation mark on the MS stamp there are six postmarks on the MS: Allensmore (n. d.); Kew (n. d.); London, 17 August 1858; Hereford, 18 August 1858; Leominster, 18 August 1858; Hereford, 18 August 1858.

Melbourne bot Garden,

15 June 1858

My dear Mr Bentham.

I have to express my warm thanks for your friendly revisal of the e; which I brought from North Australia. My paper thus having received the stamp of the highest authority, will no doubt be acceptable to Botanists.

B59.02.01.

I would ask a very great favor from you, which no botanist but yourself could confer with equal facility, namely letting me profit from your unrivalled knowledge of ,

Verbenaceae deleted before .

to learn whether what I ventured to call (a noble tree of East Australia) is to be regarded as a good genus.

See G. Bentham to M, 23 August 1858 (in this edition as 59-08-23a).

It does not agree with any in Endlicher's Genera.

Endlicher (1836-40). It does not ... Genera is a footnote with its intended position indicated by *.

Dr Sonder pronounces it as such, but refers for confirmation to your higher authority. So I hope you will give judgement as Chief Justice. We have this tree in cultivation & I should like to enter it into my printed garden catalogue, besides that I wished to pay the Governor of this Colony a compliment for the multifarious kindness, which I experienced from his Excellency.

Can I in any way be of service to you pray give me your commands.

Humbly yours

Ferd. Mueller.

Geo. Bentham Esq.

Boultibroke Presteign

Boultibroke Presteign probably in W. Hooker's hand replaces F.L.S. &c &c | [Thet]field | Hereford | London deleted (see G. Bentham to M, 23 August 1858 (in this edition as 59-08-23a)). Bentham was on a tour of the West of England and the letter was forwarded by William Hooker (RBG Kew, Archives, George Bentham, Diaries).

Ferd Mueller