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Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1895-10-24 [95.10.24a]. 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/95-10-24a>, accessed September 11, 2025
1
The letter is undated. A newspaper clipping from the Argus of 24 October 189, p. 6 is enclosed, reporting the funeral in Geelong of John Bracebridge
Wilson on the previous afternoon (i.e. 23.October 1895), which M attended. It is dated
on the assumption that the letter was written on the date M clipped the article.
Trauervoll der Ihre
Ferd von Mueller
It will sadden you deeply, honoured Professor, that our noble friend J. Bracebridge
Wilson has passed away!. What a great loss for us individually! What a great loss
also for the study of Australian algae. I cannot yet realise that I will never again
receive a letter from him, since my first personal meeting with him was in
1858
, in which year I supplied a large number of young conifers and other trees for the
surroundings of the large school building then built.
He perished from hepatitis with complications. I reported biographically to Mr Murray
now the head of the plant department in the British Museum,
so that he would write an obituary of our incomparable Geelong friend for the Linnean
Society.
2
Geelong Grammar School.
3
George Robert Milne Murray succeeded W. Curruthers as Keeper of Botany at the British
Museum in 1895.
4
An unsigned obituary of Wilson was published in
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
(1895-6), pp. 48-9.
Sorrowfully your
Ferd von Mueller