Ferdinand von Mueller

24/1/93

Since a long time, dear Prof. Lange, I intended to write to you; but in the busy departmental life in a young colony it is difficult, to do all, that could be wished. I have however born

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borne?

you always in most friendly remembrance, not only in connection with the Danish Flora, but also in reference to Spanish plants, recorded in your and Willkomm's great work,

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Willkomm & Lange (1861-80).

irrespective of my reminiscences of your great kindness to me through many years and so again also quite recently. —

My object in writing now to you, my honored friend, is to ascertain which of my works are contained in the Library of the Kopenhagen Academy, into which I became recently and so generously elected.

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M had been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in April 1890; see M to H. Zeuthen, 3 June 1890 (in this edition as 90-06-03b).

It may perhaps be possible, to complete more yet the series of these books. I will endeavour also, to send a Giant

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, but none is left known to me now as available, so that it may only be next year that one more will be discovered.

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In the event, M was able to find a

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for Lange that season; see M to J. Lange, 17 April 1893.

Failing in that I must send to Kopenhagen 2 smaller caudices , which could be placed in the Conservatory close together, so as to give an idea of a gigantic one.

Remember me kindly to Etatsrath Steenstrup, whom I met personally with Oerstedt and Forchhammer at the "Versammlung der Naturforscher und Aerzte" in Kiel 1846.

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See Michaelis & Scherk (1847).