The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Easterday 67 ¶ ¶ On the first of this month, dear Mr Bentham, the Wellesley sailed. This ship brings you all the remaining Goodeniaceae except one supplemental package (which I have in work now durin...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 264. 67.04.21b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-04-21 [67.04.21b]. 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/67-04-21b>, accessed June 20, 2025

Easterday 67

21 April.

On the first of this month, dear Mr Bentham, the Wellesley sailed. This ship brings you all the remaining except one supplemental package (which I have in work now during the holidays) & except ; it contains also all . 18 packages

18 packages interlined. The record kept by M shows 20 packages were sent for Bentham, although the entry is totalled, erroneously, to 18 (RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne.)

Thank God, I have cleared off much or all the work nearly of the exhibition

Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866-7.

& so I think the rest of the will come now in rapid succession.

The box contains also 1 package for Prof Baillon 2 packages Arran plants for your inspection & kind return

Collection not identified.

& a basket made of by the natives for Kew Museum.

The basket is recorded in the Museum entry book, Kew, 1861-79, p. 183, but may no longer exist at Kew: the item in the Economic Botany Museum as number 36442 is the one sent in 1873 (see M to J. Hooker, 30 January 1873).

must include ; otherwise I make no alteration in the older genera of .

Bentham (1863-78),vol. 4, p. 80, included within . See also B67.07.05, pp. 6-7.

Of all the miserable writings, with which systematic phytography has been burdened that of the author of the "Goodenovieae" is certainly the most miserable, and it is beyond my comprehension how a man of such eminence as Ver Huell could condescend to illustrate such imperfect work.

trash deleted before imperfect. See J. Hooker to M, 10 October 1857 for Hooker's view that de Vriese's treatment of the was 'a most unfortunate attempt'. Ver Huell's illustrations appear in de Vriese (1854).

I have from the north, also a & c

Your ever regardful

Ferd Mueller

G. Bentham Esq

FLS FRS

&c &c &c