Ferdinand von Mueller

12/8/81.

It is my pleasing duty, honored Sir, to acknowledge the receipt of the 3. vol. of the monograph. phanerogam.

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A. de Candolle & C. de Candolle (1878-96).

This portion of the new Series, issued by you & your able Son,

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Casimir de Candolle.

will maintain the celebrity of a name, which your parent has rendered already so illustrious.

May you long continue in strength and health, to supervise the edition of the future volumes. Perhaps it may fall yet to my share to elaborate the Myoporinae for these monographies, especially as the additions to this order have been so numerous, since Mr Bentham and myself published the 5th vol of the Flora Australiensis; as you must have observed from the more recent volumes of the fragmenta. It is however not likely, that many more new Myoporinae will be found, as the interior of Australia has now so much been traversed by collectors. It would not be necessary for me to see European Herbaria for a monography of Myoporinae, as the Order hardly exists outside of Australia, and I may add, that in my collection alone is a full series of the varieties of each species, and that of many of the rare new species no samples exist in Europe.

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M eventually produced, independently, a volume illustrating the myoporinous plants of Australia; see B86.08.05. He did not, however, contribute a monograph on them to the Candolles' series.

I hope soon to be able to send the 8th & 9th Decade of the Eucalyptography.

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B82.13.17, B84.04.04.