The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 2/2/91. ¶ ¶ Best thanks, highly esteemed Professor, for the kind sending of your splendid paper on the botanical inclusions of the Baltic amber. ¶ So we shall gradually become clear about the past v...

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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. 91.02.02

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Spondylostrobus smythii
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Hugo Conwentz, 1891-02-02. 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/91-02-02>, accessed September 11, 2025

2/2/91.

Besten Dank, hochgeehrter Herr Prof., für die gütige Zusendung Ihrer prächtigen Abhandlung über die pflanzlichen Einschlüsse des baltischen Bernsteins. So werden wir nach und nach über die vergangenen Vegetations Complexe klar. Mich erinnert diese schöne Monographie auch besonders an den vortrefflichen Göppert, mit dem ich als Garten-Director durch viele Jahre in reger Correspondenz stand. Auch interessiren mich die fossilen Coniferen desshalb besonders, weil es mir zufiel, die ausführliche Beschreibung einer im ältesten Pliocen weit verbreiteten Conifere, meines Spondylostrobus Smythii zu geben.

Mein Departement vertheilt aber diese Abhandlung nicht, da ich über die vegetab. Paläontologie Australiens honoris causa dem Minen-Departement hier Hülfe leistete. Es bedarf aber nur eines Briefes von Ihnen an A.W. Howitt Esqr. Secretary of the Department for Mines Melbourne (dem Sohn des Dichter Paares (William and Mary Howitt) um die beiden Decaden "Vegetable fossils of the auriferous drifts" zu erlangen, zumal wenn Sie auch an ihn Ihre neue Monographie senden. Durch die Post werde ich Ihnen die bisher erschienenen Decaden der Austral. Salsolaceen zusenden, da Sie ja in dieser Pfl Familie an der Ostsee besonders interessirt sind.

Sie ehrend

Ferd. von Mueller

Eben kehre ich von der Austr. Assoc for Adv. of Science aus Neu Seeland zurück, wo ich als vor jährigen Präsident Sir J. Hector zu installiren hatte.

2/2/91.

Best thanks, highly esteemed Professor, for the kind sending of your splendid paper on the botanical inclusions of the Baltic amber.

Conwentz (1890).

So we shall gradually become clear about the past vegetation complexes. This fine monograph also reminds me particularly of the excellent Göppert, with whom I as Garden Director stood in lively correspondence for many years. Likewise the fossil conifers interest me particularly as well, because it fell upon me to give the detailed description of a conifer widely distributed in the oldest Pliocene, my .

Described in B71.05.02.

My department, however, does not distribute this paper, because I gave assistance to the Mines Department here honoris causa on the vegetable palaeontology of Australia. However, it just needs a letter from you to A.W. Howitt Esqr., Secretary of the Department for Mines, Melbourne (the son of the poet pair William and Mary Howitt) to get both decades of the Vegetable fossils of the auriferous drifts,

B74.13.07, B83.13.04.

especially if you also send him your new monograph. I shall send you by post the previously published decades of the Australian Salsolaceae,

B90.13.14.

since you are certainly especially interested in this plant family on the Baltic.

Respectfully

Ferd. von Mueller

I am just back from the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, where I as previous president had to install Sir J. Hector.

M attended the 3rd Congress of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in Christchurch, NZ, in January 1891. Having presided over the previous Congress, held in Melbourne in January 1890, it was his duty to instal his successor, James Hector.