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British Library, London, Sherborn Autographs, VII - Science, additional manuscripts 42581, f. 177. 86.02.10aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Lubbock, 1886-02-10 [86.02.10a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-02-10a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
1
Correspondent inferred from content of letter. Lubbock was President of the Linnean
Society of London at the time, and the Bentham legacy was to the Linnean Society.
Allow me, dear Sir John, to introduce to you a particular scientific friend of mine,
Dr von Lendenfeld, of whose important researches in Australia and New Zealand you
will be aware.
His future scientific working is secured for Britain, and so he will come thus often
under the notice of the great society, over which you so ably preside.
2
Lendenfeld wrote many papers published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Linnean Society of New South Wales (1887),
pp. 31-5). Monographs on this work were published as Lendenfeld (1887), Lendenfeld
(1888) and Lendenfeld (1889).
Would it be advisable, to create out of the Legacy of Bentham a
medal
in remembrance of him for descriptive botany? Its annual distribution would give
additional impetus to strictly phytographic work, which has come much into the background,
while anatomic and physiologic researches in Botany latterly took much precedence.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller