Ferdinand von Mueller

Private

11/7/85.

This morning, dear Professor Lange, I packed up for you the 5th & 10th vol. of the "fragmenta" out of my private library, as the 5th is no longer available from Government direct. In reference to your desiring, to obtain the complete Eucalyptography, allow me to suggest to you, to ask the honorable James Service , Premier for a complete copy , as it would appear strange that you received some only; the fact is, I had never enough exemplaria to provide all my Correspondents. Your present decades you could then utilize in interchanges elsewhere Be particular to adress the Premier exactly as I underlined it, and if you could send to the honorable James Service some few publications by post at the same time for the Melbourne public Library , it would be good. I return your letter,

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Letter not found.

as it will be necessary, to write to him direct , not through me.

Please do not mention in your letter about the Todea, as it will be a private Gift of mine; if I was to send it through the Department, it would involve the necessity of your making a return-sending and necessitate also various official correspondence. All the Governments Departments here are much restricted in their actions.

Could you kindly extract out of Prof. Örsted's memoire

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Probably Örsted (1867), from which material on oaks was extracted and translated as Örsted (1867a). The journal source cited in TL2, publication 7030, appears to be in error.

any technologic notes on Oaks and Pines of Mexico for the new edition of my select plants? Surely he made some allusion to the particular species which yield the best timber and most powerful tan-bark. Perhaps you could oblige me yourself from your rich experience by notes on the value of such Scandinavian and Spanish trees, fodderherbs, pasture-grasses &c, as are not yet mentioned in the "select plants".

A new edition appeared last year in Detroit, Michigan, at Mr G. Davis's Establishment for N. America.

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B84.13.22.

It is much enlarged; and perhaps the Librarian of your Agricultural Academy will send for it. It is not expensive; I have no copies to give away, and have no monetary interest in the sale and the issue of the work. The next Edition is to appear soon in Victoria,

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B85.12.03.

and I add to it, — whenever I can, but adress myself only to breadwinning people in extratropical countries. About the respective value of arctic grasses and pasture herbs I know very little; yet notes on them would be of importance for our Australian Alps and other alpine countries, altho' we have not the long arctic summers.

Can I do anything for your Academy? Do you like me to send more Australian plants to your Herbarium in interchange? I am afraid I am in your debt yet for so many beautiful spanish specimens, highly important in connection with your & Willkomm's splendid "Flora Hispanica".

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Willkomm & Lange (1861-80). AVH (accessed 10 March 2021) records 123 Spanish specimens from Willkomm; there are also 72 from Lange of which the latest date of collection is August 1882. Around 280 other Spanish specimens collected before 1885 are listed and at least some these may also have come via Lange.

The successive "Exhibitions" in various parts of the world gave much extrawork for years; and in this pushing young country so much else is to be done also in my department, that little time is left to effect herbarium-interchanges. When you see Prof. Japetus Steenstrup, Pray give this celebrated Savant my homage.

I met Prof Steenstrup in Kiel 1846 !

What do you think of my simplification of D.C.

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De Candolle. See Maroske (2006).

syst., as given in the "systematic Census of Australian plants

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B83.03.04.

I have neither Liebmanns nor Örsteds papers on Mexican plants

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Liebmann published several works on Mexican plants. Örsted also edited Liebmann's posthumously published illustrations of Mexican oaks (see Liebman (1869)); there is now a copy of this work in the library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, but there are no marks of provenance on it.