The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ April 19/66 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ As usual your letter ¶ arrived last month the day after the Australian mail was despatched. I am rather sorry to find that the remaini...

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-04-19 [66.04.19b]. 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/66-04-19b>, accessed April 19, 2025

25, WILTON PLACE, S.W.

London

April 19/66

My dear Sir

As usual your letter

M to G. Bentham, 24 January 1866 (in this edition as 66-01-24a).

arrived last month the day after the Australian mail was despatched. I am rather sorry to find that the remaining were not despatched but I trust they are now on their way. I have just got through the s ( ) and notwithstanding some interruptions brought on by the London season I find I get through these very much more rapidly than I could with the , and if the remaining are not now on their way the appearance of the volume will be delayed — I send by this mail the first 7 sheets.

You talk of £5 as the probable expense of a map of Australia for the Flora but things of this kind are not done so cheap here — The little map in the Hong Kong Flora (which the publishers would not undertake) cost me £7.13.6 and one of Australia to be at all useful would cost at the very least £30 or £40

Among the specimens you sent by the last mail the " " from Rockingham Bay is . " " is ( DC. F. Muell.) of which you had previously numerous flowering specimens. The Ophiorrhiza is not O. leptantha Gray which has a long slender corolla. Yours (of which you had good flowering specimens amongst your s) is a small-flowered species nearest allied to the common O. Mungo

O. Mungos ?

but I think sufficiently distinct I have called it O. Australiana.

I enclose the duplicate of a bill of lading which I am told was sent you last mail — I have another box-full of specimens ready to return but do not like to send off any at least till I have done

and this box is not quite full without — I shall however probably send it off by the end of the month.

I get on so much quicker with from their not requiring boiling as the do — cold water soon moistens them sufficiently — besides that I have already on previous occasions examined them so much more that the Myrtles. Without them I have only 930 species so that I trust I shall get them all into the volume without its running to more than the 700 pages due to the public, or if it takes a few more we can omit them from the next vol. — But as soon as this vol. is out I shall finish up the third part of Genera Plant.

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 1, part 3 was published in September 1867 (TL2).

before I attack the 4th of Flora Australiensis. So that I shall not want anything beyond till after Xmas.

Yours ever sincerely

George Bentham

Dr F Mueller