The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 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 ¶ uncomparab...

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Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva. 93.06.13

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Myoporinae
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Preferred Citation:

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

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.

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,

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.

was named by Alphonse de Candolle.

Enclosed you will also find find

Word repeated.

a condolatory letter from young Naturalist-boys, who on their spontaneous impulse send this tégmoinage

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.

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"

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.

M's promised systematic work on the for A. de Candolle & C. de Candolle (1878-96) never appeared.