Ferdinand von Mueller

1

Letter not found. M included this translated extract in B82.09.01, p. 40, where he gave the date of the letter as 27 July 1882.

Your question, relative to the parts (livraisons) of Lamarck's illustration,

2

Lamarck (1791-1823); see M to A. de Candolle, 9 April 1882.

has given me some trouble, as our copy at Geneve does not indicate anything. Fortunately, while searching through the old periodicals, I found in Römer's Archiv für die Botanik II. (1799), that Millin had spoken of Lamarck's publication in his Magasin encyclopédique, vol. 1. As I had this not at Geneve, I asked Dr. Fournier to search for it in Paris, and to give if possible the dates of the numbers of Lamarck. He found, that Millin did allude to them in 1797, by saying: The sixtieth livraison had appeared and that the number of plates published was seven hundred. We need therefore not look further, at what date each number came out, as it is certain, that Vahea and all the names anterior to plate 701 are older than those of Palisot de Beauvois, his belonging all to the present century. If Fournier should succeed in finding out the dates of each number of Lamarck, he will likely publish them in the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France.

3

See also M to A. de Candolle, 10 September 1882 (in this edition as 82-09-10b), and M to A. de Candolle, 24 October 1883 (in this edition as 83-10-24b).