The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [ ¶ Baron Ferdinand Müller of Melbourne calls the attention of the Society to the fact that the priority of the denomination of the genus ¶ Waldheimia ¶ of Karelin and Kirilow, as given already i...

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76.09.00c

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Allardia
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1876-09 [76.09.00c]. 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/1870-9/1876/76-09-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou , vol. 51 (1876), Séances, pp. 41-2, The letter is dated to September as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported to the meeting held on 26 October 1876.

[Mr. le Baron Ferdinand Müller de Melbourne appelle l'attention de la Société sur ce que la priorité de la dénomination du genre de Karelin et Kirilow, comme donnée déjà en 1842, doit etre conservée à cette plante quoique plus tard dans leurs genera plantarum MM. Bentham et Hooker lui aient alloué le nom d' , proposé par Mr. Decaisne en 1844.]

[Baron Ferdinand Müller of Melbourne calls the attention of the Society to the fact that the priority of the denomination of the genus of Karelin and Kirilow, as given already in 1842, must be preserved to this plant although later, in their genera plantarum, Messrs. Bentham and Hooker have allotted the name of proposed by Mr. Decaisne in 1844.

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2. part 1, p. 424 (1873), synonymize , described in Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou , 1842, p. 125 and named to honour Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, a founder of the Moscow society, with , described by Decaisne in the botanical part of vol. 4 of Jacquemont (1841-44), p. 87. Although vol. 4 is dated 1844, TL2 reports that the work came out in 80 parts and that it has been suggested that pp. 1-88 of the botanical part was published in 1841; see Brummitt (2007), p. 592, for a summary of the arguments.

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