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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 178. 76.06.10b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1876-06-10 [76.06.10b]. 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/1870-9/1876/76-06-10b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.
10/6/76.
As you have done with the
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, dear Mr Bentham,
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See G. Bentham to M, 13 April 1876 (in this edition as 76-04-13a).
I will make arrangements for the despatch of the
Cyperaceae

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(2 large cases) at an early date.
I cannot see, why the
Restiaceae

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should occupy you long, after the most careful research bestowed by me already on them. Indeed so great has been my care given to that order of plants, that I must in justice claim the quotation of the pages of the fragmenta under the respective species.
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M's major treatment of the
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is in B73.08.01, pp. 64-101. Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, pp. 208-46 cited M's treatment. See also Lucas (2003).
I have again demanded the Palms for you from Mr Wendland,
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Letter not found.
who has them since half a dozen years. I have not even yet seen a single copy of the print on them by Dr Drude and Mr Wendland,
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H. Wendland & Drude (1875).
but I told Drude & Grisebach,
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Letters not found.
that though S[c]heffer
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Probably Scheffer (1873).
followed similar views yet I could not see any advantages in the needless multiplication of genera, when all really good research of recent times tended to simplify them.
At last, as the proverb says, we shall not be able to see the forest for trees, standing in the way.
With best regards
Ferd von Mueller.