The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. Garden, 10/1/67. ¶ ¶ A fair opportunity permits itself, dear Professor, to send you some consignment & though I had but short warning and though I am extremly busy with additional duti...

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1867-01-10. 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/67-01-10>, accessed April 19, 2025

Melbourne bot. Garden, 10/1/67.

A fair opportunity permits itself, dear Professor, to send you some consignment & though I had but short warning and though I am extremly busy with additional duties for the Exhibition,

Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.

I will not allow the ship to go without something for you & Prof. Agassiz. I send a few collections of dry plants & some unprepared Algae. It will not be before the winter possible for me to sort spare-plants regularly. I wished to do so long ago, but a succession of extra engagement prevented it. I forward also some seeds, which may prove acceptable for interchange in the Southern states. After acorns & pine seeds I have still a great longing. The Panama mail Company has generously conceded free transit for my Department. Hence facility for communication exists.

You have most generously delt with my poor works, when referring to them in the Amer. Acad. of Science's proceeding.

Gray reviewed a number of M's publications, the most recent being B64.10.02, B64.10.03, B62.02.06 and B65.02.09, reviewed in the American journal of science and arts, series 2, vol 49 (1866), pp. 415-6, signed 'A. G.'.

For your noble likenesses

These images cannot now be found.

I am most grateful. I shall always cherish them with veneration. Be not displeased, that I burden you with the kind transmission of a small sending to the bot. Society of Canada

M was a member of the Botanical Society of Canada, based in Kingston, Ontario.

& the Academy of Chicago.

No evidence has been found of contacts between M and the Chicago Academy of Sciences at this period, and his package may not have reached the Academy. In a letter that M wrote to the Academy many years later (M to the Secretary, Chicago Academy of Sciences, 7 June 1895 (in this edition as 95-06-07b)), inviting interchanges with members of the Academy, he made no mention of any earlier communications.

I have finished the 5 vol of the Fragm. But it is not yet bound.

Copies of the bound volume were issued in February 1867 (B67.02.07).

It contains many remarkable plants, e.g. a with 5-15! carpels, a leafless , a new genus of ( ), a with albuminous seeds & foliac. cotyled., species of the genera , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

i.e. Drimyspermum.

, , , , , Marattia, & other genera not formerly known to be represented, in Australia. There are many new genera, near with many ovules & no albumen, among with sessile Anthers, & , remarkable genera of , — a remarkable genus of , near , near , near , I have also given a complete enumeration of all known Australian filices.

I have returned to , after a careful examination of many Europ., American & Asiatic species.

I continue ever your regardful

Ferd. Mueller.

Since writing I have received the first proofsheets of of vol.III Fl. Austr.

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 3.

Bentham has too far reduced the genera. This seems to have arisen from an idea of that great phytographer that mono- (& I should add in his sense oligo-) typic genera must be avoided. I have failed to see the force of the argument.

My views lead me to fair equivaluation of genera in characters. Thus I deem & one genus, & , so also & , & &c; but I cannot in adopting such amount of character for a genus bring all under , , , , , , & ! only 8 genera. Such reductions seem to me no gain for facility of work & only augment the already overburdened synonymy.

The parcels in the Case are

1, for Chicago

2, for Prof. Lawson

3, Bot. Soc. of Canada

4, Dr. Behr, San Francisco.

The rest consisting of seed, or Orchid tubers (which if planted immediately will flower in a few month), of algae & about 1000 dried plants divided into 4 collections, the largest containing about 300 species

The vessel = Isabella Hermes

Isabella Hercus, which cleared out of Melbourne on 15 January 1867, bound for New York (Argus, 16 January 1867, p. 4)?