The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 21/1/90 ¶ ¶ In my presidential speech, noble friend, for the Melbourne meeting of the great Australian ¶ Association for the Advancement of Science, I have mentioned especially that an illustrated m...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Nordstedt, 1890-01-21. 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/1890-6/1890/90-01-21-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

21/1/90

In meiner Präsidenten-Rede, edler Freund, für die Melbourne Versammlung der grossen australian Association for the Advancement of Science, habe ich besonders erwähnt, dass eine illustrirte Monographie der Characeen die nöthigste jetzt im Pflanzenreich wäre! Könnten Sie mit Subsidien von hier eine solche aus dem reichen Schatz Ihrer Erfahrungen liefern. Die ganze botanische Welt wäre dabei interessirt u. die australische ganz besonders. Vielleicht könnten Sie einen Band herstellen, der sich in Form u. Behandlung denen der Eucalypten, Acacien, Myoporinen, Salsolaceen und dem bald zu beginnenden über Candolleaceen anschloss, so dass jede Platte nur eine Art enthalte. Was müssten die Hilfsmittel geldlich für den Zweck sein? um dies auszuführen Ihnen wäre die Durchführung leicht, so dass solch ein Band bald erscheinen könnte.

Sie ehrend

Ferd. von Mueller

21/1/90

In my presidential speech, noble friend, for the Melbourne meeting of the great Australian

i.e. Australasian.

Association for the Advancement of Science, I have mentioned especially that an illustrated monograph of the would be the most necessary thing now in the plant kingdom!

B90.13.01, p. 15.

Could you produce such a thing from the rich store of your experience with subsidy from here. The whole botanical world would be interested in it and the Australian quite particularly. Perhaps you could produce a volume that in form and treatment followed those of the Eucalypts, s, , and that soon to be begun on the ,

Mueller's publications, respectively B79.13.11 and following decades; B87.13.14 and B88.13.11; B86.08.05; B89.13.11 and following decades; B93.02.04.

so that each plate contained only one species. What would the pecuniary assistance have to be for the purpose in order to carry this out? The implementation would be easy for you , so that such a volume could come out soon .

Nordstedt took up M's proposal, the work being published as Nordstedt (1891), but no further decades were published.

Respectfully

Ferd. von Mueller