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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 175. 76.04.14
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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1876-04-14. 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/1870-9/1876/76-04-14-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026
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MS black edged; M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.
It is quite wonderful, dear Mr Bentham, to watch you working. I trust, however, that
you not overstrain your nervous system. Do not distress yourself about the
&c in your hand; as I said before the
genera
are far more important than the Austr. Fl.
Though of course occasional inconvenience does arise, if a large portion of the main
collection is long away, yet for all that you ought not be troubled. Let me gratulate
you to your long merited election in the French Academy.
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Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
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Bentham (1863-78). Bentham had just shipped M's
back to Australia; see G. Bentham to M, 13 April 1876 (in this edition as 76-04-13a).
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Bentham was elected a Corresponding Member of the Paris Academy of Sciences on 24
May 1875, in succession to Alphonse de Candolle, following the latter's promotion
to Associé Étranger (Index biographique des membres de l'Académie des Sciences … (Paris, 1978)).
With regardful remembrance
Ferd. von Mueller.
Now rather more than half a thousand additional species (for vol I-VI)
are described in the fragmenta. I trust in time to bring the additions up to a full
thousand.
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Of Bentham (1863-73). For a discussion of the failure to publish the proposed supplements to Flora australiensis, see Clements (1998) and Lucas (2003).