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53.08.01Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1853-08-01. 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/53-08-01>, accessed September 10, 2025
1
Letter not seen. For the text given here, see W. Sonder to D. von Schlechtendal, 2 November 1853,
published in
Tkach, Neubauer & Roser (2022), Brief
17.
...
2
Parts of letter not relevant to M omitted here and below.
Wenn Sie durch eine Anzeige oder auf andere Wiese mir zur Erlangung von 1 oder 2 Ex.
der Prodromus von Rob. Braun behilflich sein können, werden Sie mich sehr verpflichten,
in der Auction von Schwägrichen habe ich das Werk nicht erhalten.
...
Müller ist ungeduldig, möchte ich ihm doch bald die Abdrucke der Kryptogamen senden
können. Er hat mir ein paar
grobe
Druckfehler in den Diagnosen notiert, die er gerne geändert hätte u die er Sie bittet
unter die Corrigenda aufzunehmen: pag. 413. Z. 5 anstatt 1 ½" lies ½", p. 421. Z.
7. anstatt 4-partitus l. 5-partitus, p. 421. Z. 17. anstatt habitu lies halitu, p.
422. Z. 17. anstatt suparatis lies separatis, p. 444 Z. 26. anstatt nec l. nec non.]
[I have news from Dr. Mueller up to 1 August of this year. He had completed his journey
and a part of the plants was to be sent here a few days later. He enjoys travelling as a government botanist and he intends to undertake a second, larger journey in September.
Acccording to what I have already received from Melbourne, and what Mueller now writes,
the flora of the region there is remarkably conformable with that of Van Diemen's
Land. Mueller has had a bad loss with the ship Robert Peel, which stranded for some
time at the Cape, and amongst other things also a large package of manuscript, which
Mueller had put together during several months from living plants, was lost.
3
M's first Victorian journey of exploration, February-June 1853.
4
in the event, M departed on his second Victorian journey of exploration on 1 November
1853, returning to Melbourne in mid-April 1854.
5
See M to W. Hooker, 18 October 1853, n. 9.
...
If you can help me to obtain 1 or 2 copies of the Prodromus of Robert Brown through
an advertisement or otherwise, you will oblige me greatly, as I did not get the work
at the auction of Schwägrichen.
6
Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen (1775–1853), botanist. A later letter (W. Sonder
to D. von Schlechtendal, 7 December 1853 (Tkach, Neubauer & Roser (2022), Brief 18)
reveals that Sonder was seeking these copies of Brown (1810) for M. Shortly afterwards, he wrote again, thanking Schlechtendal for obtaining the copies
for him; see W. Sonder to D. von Schlechtendal, 18 December 1853, in Tkach, Neubauer
& Roser (2022), Brief 19.
...
Mueller is impatient, I would like to be able to send him the reprints of the cryptogams
soon. He has noted a few gross printing errors in the diagnoses which he would like
to have changed and which he asks you to include in the Corrigenda: p. 413, line 5
instead of 1½" read ½", p. 421, line 7 instead of 4-partitus read 5-partitus, p. 421,
line 17 instead of habitu read halitu, p. 422, line 17 instead of suparatis read separatis,
p. 444, line 26 instead of nec read nec non.
]
7
The errors are in B53.04.01; the corrections were made in
Linnaea, vol. 25, p. 722, although that given by Sonder for p. 422, line 17 is omitted. Sonder's letter continues with a list of errors to be corrected in Sonder (1852a); these were also included in the corrigenda on p. 722.