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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 84.03.25Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1884-03-25. 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/1880-9/1884/84-03-25-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
25/3/84
In the publication of the Linnéan Society of New South Wales, dear Professor Gray,
I have given notes on Linnaeus name from a recent communication of Prof J. Agardh
of Lund.
The great Naturalist wrote his name himself Linné, after he was ennobled by the King
of Sweden, even putting it thus on the title page of some of his last printed writings.
In Denmark and Germany it is always written Linné from my own knowledge; and I believe
the same is the case in most European states.
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M quoted from Agardh's letter, in English translation, in M to the Linnean Society
of New South Wales, December 1883 (in this edition as 83-12-00c) (B84.04.10). See also M to A. Gray, 25 August 1883.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.