The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/12/67 ¶ ¶ I was very glad, dear Prof. Anderson, to receive from the Linnean Society lately your excellent memoir of the Asiatic Acanthaceae. ¶ With the aid of this exquisite essay I shall be able...

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Thomas Anderson, box 2, letters from various originators 1859-68, vol. 1, no. 171 cont. 67.12.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-12-15. 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/1860-9/1867/67-12-15-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

The guard paper on to which the MS is pasted is numbered '171 contd.' with an arrow pointing to the front of the folio. It is followed by an undated fragment, numbered '171' on its guard paper. That folio is given here as the first two paragraphs of the postscript.

15/12/67

I was very glad, dear Prof. Anderson, to receive from the Linnean Society lately your excellent memoir of the Asiatic .

Anderson (1867).

With the aid of this exquisite essay I shall be able to fix the position of the few Austral. , not above a dozen!

My garden is dreadfully poor in this showy plant. I have not even in cultivation.

Should you, as I hope, work on American I will gladly send you all mine. I have some from Moritzi and others not even contained in the Kew collection.

Do you find difficulty in raising from seeds?

I am greatly obliged for your friendly mediation of my communications with Java.

See M to T. Anderson, 25 March 1867 and M to T. Anderson, 24 May 1867.

your very regardful

Ferd Mueller.

Pray give your excellent brother

Presumably John Anderson.

my kind regards

The Acclimation Society introduces no carnivorous or ferocious animals, but any thing like deer, gamebirds &c. We keep up no regular menagerie, as our fund not admits of it. I fear I shall never be able to get a specimen of Casuarius Johnsonii for your Museum the bird being so excessively rare. Indeed only a year ago I named it & made it preliminarely known.

B66.12.02. See also M to R. Murchison, 25 December 1866 (in this edition as 66-12-25b).

Museum-birds I can manage to send, & some other smaller contributions

M was actively distributing zoological specimens to international museums; see Lucas (2013a). It is not known whether he sent bird specimens to Calcutta.

The remainder of the text is on an un-numbered folio after f. 171. It is placed here on the basis of Anderson (1867), which also confirms the addressee, and of M's 1867 descriptions of (see n. 8 below).

Your " " in the L.S. proceedings have been to me a real boon. I have reduced to

M had erected (E. excelsa) in B63.04.01, p. 160, and reduced it to earlii in B67.12.01, p. 87.

and described 2 new s, also 2 or 3 other .

M named armata, D. racemifica, Justicia cavernarum, J. eranthemoides and J. hygrophiloides in B67.12.01.

The order is however singularly poor in Australia

Would the seeds of travel? I have ripened seeds of in my tank & the plant has been flowering with scarcely any intermission for 11 months

See Maroske (1992).

I have neither &c.