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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 84.01.14

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1884-01-14. 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/1880-9/1884/84-01-14-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

14/1/84.
My best thanks are due to you, honored Sir, and to your learned son, for sending me the 5th vol. part 1 of your Monographiae.
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C. B. Clarke (1883).
It contains a valuable contribution again to phytography, and it is only to be regretted, that a work, which for its completion must take gigantic dimension, can not be more accelerated by some extraneous financial aid. If the various Governments in the world would subscribe for a large number of copies, a circular being sent to them, the fund would be available to expedite the work.
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I received unfortunately without fruit , and thus it became described as a
Didymocarpus

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See B82.10.03.
I have a new cyrtandrous plant from North Queensland; but also without fruit; so I hesitate to describe it.
I have been very ill with a "catarrhe sec",
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dry catarrh.
so I went to the coast, where I finished the text of the 10th Decade of the Fragmenta.
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Error for 10th Decade of his Eucalyptographia, i.e. B84.11.02?
If you have this work not complete, or if any other volumes of mine should be wanting in your library, I will be happy to send them.
With my reverent remembrance of you and M. Casimir de Candolle
your
Ferd. von Mueller.