The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ May 8 /72 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Immediately on receiving your last letter in which you enquired what Mr Berkeley is doing about your Fungi ¶ I wrote to him and in answer he says...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 72.05.08

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Preferred Citation:

George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-05-08. 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/1870-9/1872/72-05-08-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

May 8 /72

My dear Sir

Immediately on receiving your last letter in which you enquired what Mr Berkeley is doing about your

M to G. Bentham, 18 March 1872 (in this edition as 72-03-18a).

I wrote to him and in answer he says "The notes on the Australian are printed and I only wait for the number of the Linnean Journal to come out to return the specimens to Dr Mueller to whom indeed the greater part had already been sent once and why he sent them back again I could not quite understand. Any that remain may furnish matter for a supplementary paper."

See Berkeley (1873), Berkeley (1881).

I am getting on but slowly with the . I have done about 160 species including the whole of the which have given me a great deal of trouble with their minute flowers — Although some of Muell. Arg.'s genera require a little modification I cannot approve of many of the changes Baillon has made.

J. Müller (1866), Baillon (1866) and Baillon (1867).

I have adopted (43 or 44 sp.) (2 sp.) and — I cannot unite the two latter with the American & African Baillon has too much neglected the fruits.

I trust now I shall soon receive the box you announce

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

Baron F. v. Mueller