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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 94.03.12a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1894-03-12 [94.03.12a]. 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/94-03-12a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS annotation by de Candolle: 'rep 11,7,94'. Letter not found.
12/3/94.
Let me thank you for your kind letter,
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Letter not found.
dear M. de Candolle, and for all the friendly feelings towards me. I am afraid that I forgot a former request, to send
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; but the work is here so overwhelming, that some intended duties are postponed and may sink altogether into oblivion. If such at any time should occur, concerning requirements of yours, kindly remind me.
I am greatly beholden to you for sending me the superb volume of the Guttiferae by M. Vesque,
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Vesque (1893). There is a copy of the work in the Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
to which elaboration your distinguished and lamented father referred in his last letter.
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See A. de Candolle to M, 17 March 1893.
I hardly know, what to send you in reciprocity; but if you will be so friendly to send me a list of the works of mine in the De Candollean Library, I will endeavour to complete the series, so far as this is still possible. Your own splendid Monography of the
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was largely based on anatomic characteristics, so that in this respect you were the precursor of Vesque. I shall be very proud, to furnish for your celebrated monographies the
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in 1895. The delay has been advantageous, because the warm regions of these plants are the inland or central Deserts of Australia and we have from year to year had more access to the interior "steppes", so that the additional material in the herbarium now admits of giving the geographic range of these various species more fully. Besides we are enabled now to record many additional varieties and complete diagnoses.
Will you kindly convey to M. Masson my sentiments of gratitude for his liberality and ask this distinguish continuator of the vast litterary issues of his celebrated parent, if there is anything, that I could send him from here, — perhaps some of the volumes of my own.
With regardful remembrance
your
Ferd. von Mueller.