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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 83.01.12

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1883-01-12. 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/1880-9/1883/83-01-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

12/1/83
The pleasing duty devolves on me, honored Sir, to express my best thanks for your generosity of sending me a copy of your important volume "l'origine des plantes cultivées".
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A. de Candolle (1882).
It is a book embracing a vast amount of research, and it is all the more valuable to us, as gift to science from you offered at a venerable age.
Oryza

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is doubtless indigenous to several parts of tropical Australia, and
Indigofera tinctoria

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has been found in the virgin forests on the Endeavour-River,
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Qld.
where no Indigo-plantations exist.
I was anxious to place my homage for you on public record, and trust that the expressions in which I have done this, will be pleasing to you. The proof-sheet of the dedication from my new volume "systematic Census," was forwarded by last mail.
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B83.03.04. M dedicated this work to G. Bentham, J. Hooker and A. de Candolle, 'who as heirs of great names worthily sustain world-wide ancestral fame, and who as leaders in phytography during more than a generation's time will be pre-eminent in biomorphic science through all ages'.
With deep veneration always your
Ferd. von Mueller