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Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9. 78.08.05a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Miles Berkeley, 1878-08-05 [78.08.05a]. 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/1870-9/1878/78-08-05a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

5/8/78.
It is a long time, reverend & dear Sir, since I have heard of you; but I anticipate that your attention in spare-hours is so absorbed in your favorite studies, as to leave but little time for correspondence. I have now however to send you an apparently undescribed Cordyceps, which under our united authority might obtain the name C. Meneristidis, it occurring on the larva & pupa of Meneristes laticollis. It is from the vicinity of this city, but rare. Let me hope that your glorious work proceeds in serene happiness of a long evening of your labourious day of life.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller
Have you time to give to this interesting species publicity at an early date, should it prove new?
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Berkeley illustrated the specimen and named it Cordyceps meneristidis with his and M’s joint authority in Berkeley (1878) (as 'M.J.B.'); the description was republished in Bulletin de la société botanique de France, vol. 25, 'Revue bibliographique', p. 187.