The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 24/2/86 ¶ ¶ I thank you, dear Prof Beccari, for kindly sending me the new part of your magnificent Malesia. ¶ ¶ ¶ What an amount of learning displayed in it, and what a fountain of novel informati...

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University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32. 86.02.24a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1886-02-24 [86.02.24a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-02-24a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

24/2/86

I thank you, dear Prof Beccari, for kindly sending me the new part of your magnificent Malesia.

Beccari (1877-90); presumably vol. 2, part 2, issued 28 September 1885 (TL2).

What an amount of learning displayed in it, and what a fountain of novel information! The 8th part of my Papuan plants

B86.03.02.

is under the press, and I hope to send by one of the next mails an impression.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd von Mueller

Kind salutation also to the Chevalier D'Albertis.

Luigi Maria d'Albertis.

I shall be able to send you some dried plants in 1886 for your Museum, the Exhibition-duties being now for London at an end.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1885-86.