26/8/62
My dear Professor,
On the 6. of Aug. I forwarded to Mr. W Pamplin of London pr “Moravian” 2 cases for the Museum and in one of these you will find some dry plants from tropical Australia. This collection will be completed hereafter. I was fortunate enough to obtain yet 1 copy of the report on Babbages plants1 &send it today to you.
Since you evince much interest on Rhamneae I enclose fragments of a new genus recently published in the Fragmenta.2
From a remark by M Ramel3 I am informed that you & your excellent colleagues of the Muséum d’histoire naturelle found me worthy of electing me one of the Museum’s correspondent,4 a honour which I the more highly appreciate as it was so little deserved & which places me under so great obligation to you, that I shall doubly exert myself, to show my gratitude for this distinction.
Ever with deep
veneration
your
Ferd Mueller
Mons
le Prof Adolphe Brogniart5
&c &c &c
Rhamneae
B59.04.02.
M erected Emmenosperma (E. alphitinioides) in B62.09.01, p. 63.
Letter not found.
See Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris to M, 22 July 1862. The diploma would not have reached M by the time this letter was written.
i.e. Brongniart.
The file includes an apparently unrelated description, in M’s hand, of Aristolochia praevenosa.
Please cite as “FVM-62-08-26c,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on