The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/12/64. ¶ Dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I have to reply to your letter of the 12 Oct., ¶ arrived within the last week. The receipt of the proof sheets of the second vol. of the flora Austra...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. ff. 155-7. 64.12.24

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1864-12-24. 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/64-12-24>, accessed April 19, 2025

Melbourne bot Garden

24/12/64.

Dear Sir.

I have to reply to your letter of the 12 Oct.,

G. Bentham to M, 12 October 1864.

arrived within the last week. The receipt of the proof sheets of the second vol. of the flora Austral I was glad to acknowledge by last mail,

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2. The next earliest complete letter to Bentham surviving at Kew is dated 24 September 1864.

when and in mails before I offered some notes thereon. is omitted in . I have not seen it myself but Dr Hooker must have some authentic record of this plant as an Australian, since he enumerates it in his list of Indo-Australian vegetation, prefixed to the flora Tasmanica.

J. Hooker (1860), 'Introductory essay', p. cliv, also published separately as J. Hooker (1859a).

It will not be necessary to forward in future any more copies of the flor. Austr. to Copenhagen, to Beckler or to any other place on my behalf, as I formerly desired,

See M to G. Bentham, 24 June 1863, and M to G. Bentham, 24 September 1863.

in as much as I am under no obligation to the recipients and find the distribution of works, maintained by me out of my private means for many years too ruinous to be continued. I fear, that for this reason I must also limit for the present the subscription to the genera plantarum

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

to two copies; The small saldo I owe you I will send either by this or next mail.

I am thankful for the return of the , which you have arranged. It is always hindersome to be deprived of any part of a collection.

I cannot well comprehend, how & will find room with sundry smaller orders in one volume of the work. Even if , , , , , , had gone into the second volume, I do not think the two great f[amil]ies and the unseparable , , , , could be brought into one volume, with a prospect of giving so much of their characteristic, as to do justice to them.

I anticipate, that you will find, & the orders thence to will fully cover all pages of vol III & that the latter order has to be retained for the fourth volume; if , which are ill placed in & which will have gone through J. Muellers hands before you can have finished the , were accepted for the 3 vol. it would make a good complex without the . —

Pray let me be informed, whether you desire the for the or rather for the . I have seemingly a new , distinct from K. bracteata. - , & have to be regarded as mere subgenera of .

The sum for the draft for vol II (£100) must be in your hands by this time. Your remarks about are interesting I am glad that case N. 14 arrived, but remain quite in incertainty about some of the others. As they have a consecutive number, perhaps you will kindly let me know what arrived

I regret, that your zealous & valuable assistant Mr Black

Alan A. Black.

had to leave the chilly climate of England, for the same reason, which brought me to Australia. I trust he will be benefitted by the fine upland air of India.

By my last letter I mentioned, that the 30 copies of the flor. Austral. had arrived & they have been distributed by Government.

Letter not found. The previous letter to Bentham in the files is dated 24 September 1864, at which time the printing of the second volume of Flora australiensis was being completed (See J. Hooker to M, 19 September 1864). The completed volumes had been sent by 12 October (G. Bentham to M, 12 October 1864).

I shall commence the next number of the Fragmenta with a new genus of ( )

M erected five new genera in B65.04.01, not including , which he had erected in B64.05.01 (M. symphyanthera, p. 96). None of these genera is in . M did not publish any species in in 1865.

closely allied to .

It is quite possible that a few cultivated plants have slipped into the Sydney Collections, but as so many of these specimens are unnamed it is difficult for me to ascertain this.

With a cordial

Adieu

Ferd Mueller