The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne, 16/9/90. ¶ T. R. Wilson Esqr, ¶ Under Secretary ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to report, that the first second and third Decade of the iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants are now re...

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P90/3422 unit 246, VPRS 1163/P1 inward correspondence files, VA 672 Premier's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria. 90.09.16

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1890-09-16. 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/1890-6/1890/90-09-16-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne, 16/9/90.

T. R. Wilson Esqr,

Under Secretary

i.e. Chief Secretary's Department.

Sir

I have the honor to report, that the first second and third Decade of the iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants are now ready at the Gov. Printing office, that the 4th, 5th and sixth require only yet some slight corrections, and that the 7th, 8th ninenth

sic.

and tenth, with which this work will be concluded, are also already in a far advanced state.

Decades 1-2 = B89.13.04; Decades 3-6 = B90.13.14; Decades 7-9 = B91.13.24. There was no Decade 10.

I beg therefore now to solicit,

Solicit has been added in the margin, presumably as a clarification of M's writing.

that the consent of the hon. the Premier now be obtained for the distribution through the public Library of these Decades, as successively they will be ready. Further I beg to submit for consideration a list of such Recipients, as latterly by interchanges and in a few instances for other reasons seem to have claims for obtaining this particular work.

M's request was approved and forwarded to the Premier's Office. From there it was sent on to the Government Printer and the Librarian of the Public Library who printed and distributed the volumes by the end of the year. A typed copy of M's list of proposed recipients, headed 'APPROVED LIST of recipients of the Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous Plants', is attached to the end of P84/3313, unit 48, VPRS 1163/P1 inward correspondence, VA 1123 Premier, Public Record Office, Victoria, which contains a list of recipients for the 10th decade of Eucalyptographia together with M’s covering letter, M to G. Berry, 9 November 1884.

See also M to E. Thomas, 25 November 1890 (in this edition as 90-11-25a).

I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant

Ferd von Mueller,

Gov. Botanist.

Proposed recipients of the Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous Plants.

List written by Georg Luehmann.

Academy	of Science	New York
"	"	Philadelphia
"	"	Chicago
"	"	San Francisco
"	"	Vienna
"	"	Munich, Germany
"	"	Goettingen
"	"	Amsterdam
"	"	Utrecht
"	"	Leyden
"	"	Brussels
"	"	St. Petersburg
"	"	Copenhagen
"	"	Stockholm
"	"	Upsala
"	"	Lund
"	"	Lisbon
"	"	Madrid

Academia Caes. Leopold. Carol., Halle a/S., Germany

Academia dei Lincei		Rome
Academy of Science		Paris
Acclimatisation Society		Paris
Acclimatisation Society		Palermo
Agri-Horticultural	Society	Calcutta
"	"	Madras
"	"	Lahore
Agricultural	Department	Washington
"	"	Melbourne
Agricultural Society		Algiers

Apotheker Verein (Chemists Soc.) Vienna

Ascherson, Professor, University Berlin

Botanical	Society	(Royal)	Edinburgh
"	"	(Royal)	Regensburg, Germany
"	"		Hamburg
Botanical Museum (Royal)			Berlin

Bailey, F. M. govt. Botanist Brisbane

Beccari, Dr. E. Florence

The next name has been deleted and does not appear on the approved list: 'Britten, J., Editor Journal of Botany, S. Kensington'.

Carruthers, W. FRS., Mus. Nat. Hist., South Kensington

Candolle, Prof. A. de, Geneva

Caruel, Professor Florence

Cornu, Prof. M. Mus. d'Hist. Natur. Paris

Chemist &	Druggist,	Editor. Melbourne
"	"	42 Cannon Str. London

Chief Secretary, The Hon Melbourne

Davis, Geo., Medical Publisher, Detroit, Michigan

Drude, Professor Dresden

Elder, Sir Thomas, Knock Castle, Largs, Ayrshire

Forrest, Honble John Perth, West Australia

Field Naturalists Club Melbourne

Govt. Botanist's Office Melbourne

Goeze, Dr. E. Greifswald, Germany

Graff, Rob., Artist Finlay Str., South Melbourne

Grand-ducal Library Schwerin, Germany

Hooker, Sir Joseph, Sunningdale, Berks., Engl.

Holtze, M. Govt. Gardener Port Darwin

Horticultual Society (Royal) Melbourne

Horticult. Improvement Soc. Melbourne

Horticultual Society (Imperial) Vienna

Institut Egyptien Cairo

Kirk, Professor Thos. Wellington, NZ

King, Dr. G. Brigade Surgeon Calcutta

Koehne, Dr. E. Goeben str. Berlin

Linnean Society Burlington House, London

Linnean Society Sydney

McGill University Montreal Canada

Masters, Dr. M. T., Mount Avenue, Ealing, London

Museum Library, Waren, Mecklenburg, Germany

Moore, Chas, Dir. Bot. Garden Sydney

Naudin, Professor Antibes (Var) France

New Zealand Institute Wellington

Physico-Economic Society Königsberg, Germany

Pharmaceutical Society Melbourne

Royal Colonial Institute London

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London

Royal Irish Academy Dublin

Royal	Society	Burlington House London
"	"	Melbourne
"	"	Sydney
"	"	Adelaide
"	"	Brisbane
"	"	Hobart

Regel, Dr. E. Bot. Garden St. Petersburg

Solms-Laubach, Prof. Count, Strassburg, Germany

Smithsonian Insititute Washington

Society of Natural History Boston U.S.

Sociedad Rural Argentina Buenos Aires

Société Impériale des Naturalistes Moscow

Shaw School of Botany St. Louis, Missouri

Technologic Museum Sydney

Treub, Dr. Dir. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, Java

Uhlworm, Dr. Cassel, Germany

University Library	Melbourne
"	Rostock, Germany
"	Coimbra, Portugal
"	Cordoba, Argentina

Wittmack, Prof. Invaliden Str. Berlin

Woolls, Revd Dr. Burwood, Sydney

Wilson, J. Bracebr., Grammar School, Geelong

Watt, Dr. G. MB, Reporter on Economic Products to the Government of India Calcutta

Zedtwitz, Baron, President of the German Scientific Society Mexico

Editor of the "Queenslander" Brisbane