The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25/4/65 ¶ My dear Professor Anderson ¶ ¶ Your kind letter of 22 january is still unanswered before me. ¶ That Coniferous seeds are a great boon I need not repeat. I have now in a reserve adjoining t...

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Thomas Anderson, box 2, letters from various originators 1859-68, vol. 1, no 158. 65.04.25d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1865-04-25 [65.04.25d]. 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/1860-9/1865/65-04-25d-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

25/4/65

My dear Professor Anderson

Your kind letter of 22 january is still unanswered before me.

Letter not found.

That Coniferous seeds are a great boon I need not repeat. I have now in a reserve adjoining the garden 12,000 Conifers established, and the Himalaians are predominant among them thanks to the kindness of my Indian friends. I must endeavour to send you some seedlings of Araucariae I have here as soon as a good opportunity arises. I think it can only be done by sailing vessel with any chance of success. If these seed-boxes will safely travel you would be easier in quantity be

be repeated.

supplied. seeds will not travel like those of A. Bidwillii, and it seems also to be impossible to send those of A. excelsa with any chance of success. Your elaborations of

Anderson (1864).

must finally lead to something excellent. The order has furnished nothing new in collections recently received, though I have got much of Indian type from Rockingham Bay

Qld.

( , Tetracera, , , , , , &c &c) I am sadly in arrear with my distribution of specimens; but you must have still a little patience with me. Personally I have for a good while past been unable to collect anything & the movement for poor Leichhardt

Ladies' Leichhardt Search Committee.

has left me no leisure since christmas last.

From your worthy father

Thomas Anderson, Secretary of the National Bank of Scotland; see J. Balfour (1870), p. 41.

I have a letter by last mail.

Letter not found.

I trust that the dreadful destruction in your garden leaves you not courageless, & that in your zealous work for reestablishing you will be well supported.

See Gardeners' chronicle, 14 January (p. 31), 11 February (p. 123); 4 March (p. 196) and 16 December 1865 (pp. 1177-8) for accounts of the damage sustained by the Calcutta Botanic Gardens in the cyclone of 5 October 1864.

Most regardfully

your

Ferd. Mueller