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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 93.06.13

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1893-06-13. 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/1890-6/1893/93-06-13-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation by de Candolle: 'répondu 25,7,93 annoncé envoi de portrait et dit que les Myoporines seront les bien venues après l'Impression des Guttifères' [answered 25.7.93. Announced sending of a portrait and said that the would be welcome after the printing of the Guttiferae]. Letter not found; M acknowledged receipt of both the letter and the portrait in M to C. de Candolle, 4 September 1893.
13/6/93.
You will receive, dear M. de Candolle, an official message, conveyed by the hon Secr. of the Field-Naturalists Club of Victoria, expressive of our grief at the loss of your uncomparable father.
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The message was apparently accompanied by a copy of M's éloge of Alphonse de Candolle, read to the Victorian Field Naturalists' Club at its meeting on 8 May 1893; see B93.06.04 and M to C. de Candolle, 4 September 1893.
Last evening, when distributing as Patron the annual prizes at the Club to 6 juvenile Ladies and 7 young Gentlemen, for the field-work and collections emanating therefrom,
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See Victorian naturalist, vol. 10 (1893), pp. 43-4.
I alluded to the Australian Bellflower, , as our floral souvenir for ever of your parent, it being the only species here, which may form a blue sheet on our meadows, the blue as a prevailing color hardly anywhere existing here in any places of vegetation, though often met with in Europe through the many campanulas.
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was named by Alphonse de Candolle.
Enclosed you will also find find
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Word repeated.
a condolatory letter from young Naturalist-boys, who on their spontaneous impulse send this tégmoinage
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testimony.
of their sorrow, when they heard of Alphonse de Candolle's passing away through me, and in a similar manner will likely be sent to you condolatory adresses also from other science unions in the Australian Colonies. Your worthy mother must have come from a family, originating in Germany, according to her maiden name.
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Casimir de Candolle's mother's maiden name was Kunkler.
Ever with regardful attachment your
Ferd. von Mueller
I feel sure you will honor our Club and also the juvenile "Field-Club of Surrey-Hills"
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Vic. The Surrey Hills Field Club was 'established by a few enthusiasts for directing the attention of the young people of one of our suburbs to natural history' (Vic. naturalist, vol. 10 [1893], p. 30).
with some few encouraging lines.
I must try to redeem early my promise to furnish the for the "Monogr. phanerog." The delay has much enriched the material, particularly from new regions in Central Austr.
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M's promised systematic work on the for A. de Candolle & C. de Candolle (1878-96) never appeared.