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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 79.09.06

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1879-09-06. 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/1870-9/1879/79-09-06-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

6/9/79
By this months post, dear Dr. Gray, I send you the two first decades of the
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Atlas, and I hope to send the 3th & 4th by the October Mail.
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B79.13.11.
In any review, kindly remember that I have been cruelly excluded out of my bot. Garden for more than six years, where I had about 60 species of
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under culture, many of them since lost. The destruction of my Department in most of its branches has delayed also the appearance of this Atlas, and you will also kindly consider, that many of the experimental tests of the woods, whether chemical or dynamic or anatomic could not be carried out, since in 1873 even my laboratory was pulled down by mere malice, and I even was deprived of my apparatus. If you review the Decades, pray, send me the pages of the periodical, as otherwise I shall never even read the review myself.
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Gray reviewed Decades 1 and 2 in the American journal of science; see A. Gray (1879).
If the Library of the Academy, of which you are the worthy President,
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M is no doubt referring to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which Gray had been President, 1863-73.
likes to have also a Copy of the Atlas, I will be happy to send it.
Various publications have been forwarded to you from time to time. I hope they reached you "franco"
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i.e. free of postage. See also M to A. Gray, 1875 (in this edition as 75-00-00f).
; perhaps they never arrived at all.
With the best wishes for your health & happiness and for the progress of your glorious labours I remain your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller.