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Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris. 62.08.26c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolphe Brongniart, 1862-08-26 [62.08.26c]. 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//letters/1860-9/1862/62-08-26c-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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The file includes an apparently unrelated description, in M’s hand, of Aristolochia praevenosa .
26/8/62
My dear Professor,
On the 6. of Aug. I forwarded to Mr. W Pamplin of London pr “Moravian” 2 cases for the Museum and in one of these you will find some dry plants from tropical Australia. This collection will be completed hereafter. I was fortunate enough to obtain yet 1 copy of the report on Babbages plants
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B59.04.02.
&send it today to you.
Since you evince much interest on
Rhamneae

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I enclose fragments of a new genus recently published in the Fragmenta.
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M erected Emmenosperma (E. alphitinioides) in B62.09.01, p. 63.
From a remark by M Ramel
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Letter not found.
I am informed that you & your excellent colleagues of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle found me worthy of electing me one of the Museum’s correspondent,
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See Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris to M, 22 July 1862. The diploma would not have reached M by the time this letter was written.
a honour which I the more highly appreciate as it was so little deserved & which places me under so great obligation to you, that I shall doubly exert myself, to show my gratitude for this distinction.
Ever with deep
veneration
your
Ferd Mueller
Mons
le Prof Adolphe Brogniart
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i.e. Brongniart.
&c &c &c