Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne bot Garden,

25/9/63

Dear Professor Balfour.

I have to express to you my grateful acknowledgements for your kindness of sending me through Dr Madden your valuable "outlines of Botany"

1

J. Balfour (1862); this (second) edition was published in October 1862, see 'Publications for the past week', Morning advertiser (London), 24 October 1862, p. 8. Henry Madden arrived in Melbourne per Monarch on 27 July 1863 (Argus, 28 July 1863, p. 4).

which comprises a summary well arranged of our favorite science & must prove useful to students & teachers. I am also indebted to you for several other highly interesting publications & for the regular transmission of Edinburgh papers, keeping me thus posted up in the work of the bot Society. My friend Dr Wilkie, a native of Edinburgh, a member of the Upper House of the Legislature and one of our most esteemed physicians here gets the paper always from me.

I have enjoyed twice a conversation with Dr Madden, whose health has greatly improved by the sea voyage, and I should have seen him oftener but for my engagement to aid Mr Bentham, for whom I have just now completed transmitting the collections required for the second vol of the Australian flora.

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i.e. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 2.

Is the

Balfouria saligna

Search for Balfouria saligna in

• This website
• Australian Plant Name Index

RBr named after a relative or ancestor of yours?

3

Robert Brown named Balfouria to commemorate a founder of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Sir Andrew Balfour (1630-94). See Desmond (1994).

I can find plenty of specimens from Queensland.

Can I do anything for your Societies? or for your Garden? pray command my services always unhesitatingly.