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58.03.15bPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1858-03-15 [58.03.15b]. 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/58-03-15b>, accessed September 11, 2025
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Letter not seen; text extracted from W. Sonder to D. von Schlechtendal, 12 August 1858 (Tkach, Neubauer & Roser (2022), Brief 32).
[On behalf of Dr Mueller in Melbourne, I have to send you the enclosed items, and
I would ask you to include the enclosed advertisement in the
Botanische Zeitung.
It is to be hoped that you have received my last letter, which included Dr Reisseck's treatment of the
Rhamnaceae.
Dr Mueller, who is now doing well and has much to do with his botanical garden, writes
to me that he would like to receive from you what he is missing from the Linnaea in
exchange for plants. I do not know whether you have not perhaps already corresponded
with him about this. From a list of his books recently sent to me, I see that he has:
1852, 1853, 1855. 1854 only parts 4 and 5 and 1856 only part 5. That would be what
you sent me for him. If you are willing to accept his suggestion, then in November,
when a large consignment of other things leaves for Melbourne, what you sent could
be packed along with it. I have recently received decidedly smaller consignments of
plants from Dr Mueller, and I will gladly let you have the duplicates, but they will
not be many and will not exceed approx. 200 species, as there are few duplicates now.]
2
Enclosures not found. However, there is a long summary of M's latest report, prepared by 'S' (B57.09.01), in
Botanische Zeitung, 24 September 1858, p. 296.
The advertisement that appeared in
Botanische Zeitung, 20 August 1858, p. 256 (B58.08.01), also published in
Hamburger Garten- und Blumen
-Z
eitung, vol. 14, p. 383 (B58.08.03) (see M to the Editor of the
Hamburger Garten- und Blumen-Zeitung, 15 March 1858 (in this edition as 58-03-15a)) is almost certainly the text concerned, and the present letter is dated on that basis.
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Riesseck (1858a). The article was part of the 'Plantae Muellerianae' series.