The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ Christmas eve ¶ 1870 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Sir Redmond, I send a list of some of the phytographic works, of which the public Library stands much in need. Mr Tulk on careful refere...

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VPRS 5486/P0/1, inward correspondence, official letters miscellaneous pp. 126-7, VA 913 Public Library of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.12.24b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1870-12-24 [70.12.24b]. 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/70-12-24b>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne bot Garden

Christmas eve

1870

Herewith, dear Sir Redmond, I send a list of some of the phytographic works, of which the public Library stands much in need. Mr Tulk on careful reference may however find, that one or the other of these works is already contained in your Library.

See also M to R. Barry, 24 December 1870 (in this edition as 70-12-24a). Some of the works M lists were suggested, sometimes with minor differences in details of title and date, in M to R. Barry, 5 October 1866 (in this edition as 66-10-05a).

If the trustees think the acquisition of all these works too heavy a tax on the funds of your institution for 1871, I would suggest to omit for the present Hooker's bot. Magazine, as I have received from my London Bookseller this Magazine monthly since many years, so that my copy is complete, while yours had no arrears for at least 10 years.

Baillons work might also be omitted, as I have the original french edition from the author, who is my intimate friend. For Booths

i.e., Boott.

Carices we are also less pressed. Reichenbach's Xenia might also stand over, as I have the text (though not the superb plates) in other works.

All the works, noted, are standard ones.

With my best salutation and wishes for the Christmas & new year your

Ferd. von Mueller

Gay (Claude) Historia fisica y politica de Chili, Paris (1845 and following years)

There are three series in Gay's work, History, Zoology and Botany. M presumably was asking for the botany series, Gay (1845-5 2 ), to be acquired ; this was one of the works he had requested in 1866 . The State Library of Victoria has the complete series of 28 volumes. Vol . 1 of the Atlas to the whole series includes illustrations of plants.

Baillon (H.) the natural history of plants, London (L. Reeve) 1870 (under continuation)

Hooker, botanical Magazine 1860-1870. (under continuation)

Pfeiffer et Otto Abbildung und Beschreibung bluehender Cacteen, Kassel 1843 and following years.

Engelmann (George) Cactaceae of the Unit. States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Washington 1859.

Antoine (Franz) Die Coniferen, Vienne 1840 and following years.

Antoine (Franz) Die Cupressinen Gattungen 1857-1864

Boott, illustrations of the genus Carex l - lll London 1858-1862.

Hooker and Greville icones filicum 1829-1831.

Howard (John Elliot) Quiniologia London 1859-1862.

Weddell histoire naturelle des Quinquinas 1849.

Kotschy, Eichen Europa's und des Orients, 1858-1862.

Lemaire & van Houtte Flore des serres et jardins de l'Europe 1845-1870.

i.e. Van Houtte (1845-80); by the time M wrote, the first 18 of the ultimate 23 volumes had been published (see TL2). Although Lemaire is the first of three authors listed on the title page of vol. 1 and is listed among many names in some later volumes, he is not included in all of the volumes published by 1870. The TL2 entry also contains a discussion of the way that collaborators ('rédacteurs') are listed.

Reichenbach (G.) Xenia orchidaceae 1854-1870.

i.e., vol . 1 (dated 1858 on title page, but part 1 issued April 1854) and vol. 2, parts 1-7, of Reichenbach (1858-1900).

Brackenridge (W. D.) United States Exploring Expedition, Filices , Philadelphia 1855.

Carrière traité general des Coniferes

Gordon Pinetum with supplement.