The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ July 12 /68 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines to say that a box was despatched to you last week of which I trust you have received the bill of lading from Kew and another...

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RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 68.07.12

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-07-12. 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/68-07-12>, accessed September 11, 2025

25, WILTON PLACE, S.W.

July 12 /68

My dear Sir

I write a few lines to say that a box was despatched to you last week of which I trust you have received the bill of lading from Kew and another will be sent off in a few days. I send by this post 12 more sheets of the Flora

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 4.

all that is printed off — more is in type but I shall now go on very slowly with the printing for a couple of months as I leave town tomorrow morning and shall not be back to work till the middle of September. The Orders I am now printing contain so large a number of genera in proportion to the species that they take up more space and as by the agreement with the Publishers I have to issue a thin volume to compensate for the extra bulk of the third I doubt much if I shall get more than into it The and are in the printers hands, the only want the last copying out for press which I shall do in the country. are done except the revision with your specimens which I hope to do on passing through town for a few days in August so that to finish the volume in September I shall only have the — and one or two small orders if I can get them in — the Personate or Bilabiate orders ( etc) will have I fear to stand over for the 5th vol.

In the event, were included in the 4th volume, while and were, as Bentham predicted, held over for the 5th.

I shall therefore not trouble you to send any more till you hear from me that I have begun upon the 5th vol., which will not be till next year.

I have duly received yours of the 24th April

M to G. Bentham, 24 April 1868.

and shall attend to the various suggestions you make

It is very possible that I may sometimes in the large parcels of some species in your collection have let here and there a specimen in out of place I take what pains I can but now and then a mistake may occur and the specimens being loose in double sheets I cannot turn them over so frequently and readily as ours which being all fastened down on single sheets of stiffer paper can be turned over rapidly like the leaves of a book — besides I get sometimes bewildered in the great heaps of specimens — but I trust to you to correct any mistakes I may make

Ever yours sincerely

George Bentham

Dr F. Mueller FRS &c