[S. Exe. M. le ministre des affaires étrangères transmet une lettre de M. Ferdinand Mueller et un paquet de graines de Cinchona officinalis. M. Mueller annonce le prochain envoi de graines de diverses plantes australiennes, qu'il pense devoir prospérer en Algérie et dans le Sahara.]
[His Excellency The Minister for Foreign Affairs1 forwards a letter from Mr Ferdinand Mueller and a packet of seeds of Cinchona officinalis. Mr Mueller announces the next shipment of seeds of various Australian plants that he thinks should prosper in Algeria and in the Sahara.]2
Cinchona officinalis
Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys.
The extract was followed by a note of thanks (letter not found) and the comment that 'Les graines de Cinchona dues à la générosité de notre confrère ont immédiatement été réparties entre l'Algérie, nos colonies des Antilles, l'île Maurice et la Réunion' [The seeds of Cinchona due to the generosity of our colleague have immediately been divided between Algeria, our colonies of the West Indies, Mauritius and Reunion].
Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation, series 2, vol. 3 (1866), p. 680. The letter is dated to October 1866 as the latest likely date that it could have been written to be reported at the meeting of the Society held on 7 December 1866.
Please cite as “FVM-66-10-00c,” 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