Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS 9077, Box 65, Royal Society of NSW papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. 87.04.23b

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Francis Kyngdon, 1887-04-23 [87.04.23b]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-04-23b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Kyngdon was acting as Secretary of the Royal Society of NSW in the absence of Archibald Liversidge, who had a year's sabbatical leave in 1887.
23/4/87.
Dear Sir
It needs not my assurance, that I shall not fail, to place the R. S. of N.S.W. on the list of recipients when the text of the myopor. plants appears; but as I have undertaken to write for De Candolles great serial “Monographiae phanerogamarum” the
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, to that precedence must be given. afterwards the descriptive part will appear in the English Language, though in a somewhat altered form.
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M had published a volume of lithograms of Myoporinous plants in 1886 (B86.13.21), without accompanying text. Neither his promised account for Candolle's series nor the promised English-language work was ever published.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.