Ferdinand von Mueller

1/8/78.

It is my pleasing duty, dear Dr Gray, to acknowledge the sending of your most valuable and important volume on N. American plants in continuation of the great work of Dr. Torrey & yourself.

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A. Gray (1878-97). The first part issued was published as vol. 2, part 1, in May 1878.

What a host of novelty the rich, particularly western flora has afforded you! You may well be enveyed for your grand successes!

In accordance with your wishes, I have forwarded a copy (bound) of vol. X of the Fragmenta

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Published in parts during 1876 and 1877, with bound copies issued in March 1878 (B78.03.10).

for yourself. It will be long before a new volume

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The first fascicle of vol. 11 was published in January 1879 (B79.01.01), but bound copies of the complete volume were not issued until May 1882 (B82.05.22).

can appear, because only rarely now new plants turn up in any part of Australia. If any of my publications are acceptable for the Academy ,

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston.

of which you are the dignified president, I will gladly send them. Any reviews of my writings, from your friendly pen would remain unknown to me, unless you sent me the print yourself, as in former years.

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Gray reviewed the first decades of M's Eucalyptographia (B79.13.11) in A. Gray (1879).

I hope you got my English (enlarged) edition of Wittsteins Chemistry of plants,

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B78.06.09.

which ought to prove valuable to you, indeed to any medical man. Regardfully