The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 23/5/62 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I hoped to have sent to you by this mail the remittance of £100 in aid of the work on Australian plants. But the Parliament has not yet passed...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 58. 62.05.23

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-05-23. 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/62-05-23>, accessed April 28, 2025

MS black-edged; M's sister Bertha died on 7 September 1861.

Melbourne botan. Garden

23/5/62

Dear Mr Bentham.

I hoped to have sent to you by this mail the remittance of £100 in aid of the work on Australian plants. But the Parliament has not yet passed the votes for my department nor indeed of most of the others; a new civil service bill affecting the estimates has however gone through the lower house & thus it is likely, that the financial arrangements for the year will be completed in time for my transmitting the amount by next mail. In the 18. number (transmitted by this mail) of my Fragmenta you will see three new genera characterized, on which I would be glad to have your opinion.

In B62.05.01 M erected Coatesia (C. paniculata), p. 26; Osbornia (O. octodonta), p. 31 and (S. moorei), p. 28.

I altered the name of

Used as a deleted herbarium name, replaced by Lamprosporum on the sheet K 591210. M erected (S. moorei ) in B62.05.01, p. 28. See also M to G. Bentham, 26 August 1862, and notes thereto.

given before to , after I have now received the flowers, which seem to point to , altho' the embryo is so small. Have you in your genera plantarum

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

considered my seemingly portulaceous genus with septical dehiscence? I described it in the report on Babbages plants.

B59.04.02, p. 9 ( septifraga). See G. Bentham to M, 24 July 1862.

I hope to learn successively of the safe arrival of my normal plants. vize:

1 case pr Young Australia

Young Australian.

shipped 26 Dec. (bill of loading)

1 case pr Great Britain shipped 27 Jan (bill of loading)

1 case shipped pr Dover Castle 27 March care of Dr Thomson the surgeon of the ship ( no bill of loading)

1 case pr. Orwell, shipped 24 April (bill of loading)

I shall have an other case in readiness in a few days.

I hope you will carefully bear in mind my total adversity of seeing any herbarium Synonyms whatsoever published!

See Lucas (1995) for a discussion of M's concerns.

Pray do not quote any of mine, even out of my catalogues, unless such are fully established by Diagnosis. […]

The manuscript ends at the bottom of a page without valediction.

Do you not think that I am fairly entitled to the priority of Citrus Austra lasica, having independently described it first

This sentence is written in the margin of the first page of the letter. M described Citrus australasica in B58.06.01, p. 26. See Bentham (1863-78), vol. 1, p. 371.