21/12/67.
This day, Mr Bentham, sails the Superb and brings you case 35, containing
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Epacrideae, |
suppl. fasc |
6 |
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Asclepiad |
- - |
1 |
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Stylideae |
- - |
1 |
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Goodeniaceae |
} suppl |
1 |
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Lobeliacea |
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Plumbagineae |
} |
1 |
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Gesneriaceae |
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Orobancheae |
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Hydrophylleae |
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Syraceae |
- |
1 |
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Jasmineae- |
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1 |
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Bignoneaceae |
- |
2 |
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Plantagineae |
- |
1 |
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Primulaceae- |
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1 |
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Total |
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16 |
The box contains also for Dr Hooker one Wommera and one Boomerang1 made of your Acacia acuminata by the natives about Stirlings Range.2
I beg to advise you not to commence printing of the 4th vol3 until after Easter. You will receive by the Superb then in time some more new Stylideae, Epacrideae &c, mostly collected by myself as I worked hard during my short stay in West Australia. I am entitled in having these plants quoted as collected by me, for the voyage to West Austr and travelling there has cost me nearly a hundred pounds Sterling! out of my private means! — So I should have some reward, though this is but a small sacrifice when compared to giving up 20 years of my best in life to these phytologic researches in Australia alone and sinking beween £7000 & £8000 for these researches in my department, a sum or fortune, irreparably lost.
Accidentally I omitted to put the rest of the Acanthaceae into Box 35 now. But I will despatch an other consignment in january and finish off sending Monopetaleae in February[.]4 Earlia I have now reduced to Graptophyllum as a section, 2 Diclipteras described &c &c5
You must be so kind to tell me at once, whether you intend to carry out your original intention of including the huge order of Proteaceae into the 4th volume. Bear kindly in mind, that my collection of Austral Proteaceae comprises 160 fascicles! I think it better to go a little more into description of structural details of Cor[o]lliflorae, so that they may fill volume fourth, and to retain all Monochlamydeae for vol. 5. If you reflect, that unfortunately Laurineae, Euphorbiaceae &c remained excluded from Calyciflorae, you will see that now much material remains for vol. V. Euphorbiaceae have even since Baillons last writing6 received new addenda, bringing them up to nearly 200!
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Proteacea about |
500 |
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Salsolaceae |
100 |
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[Amaran]thaceae |
50 |
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Santalaceae |
50 |
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Polygoneae |
[3]0 |
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Urticeae |
30 |
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Conif7 |
10 |
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Cycad8 |
10 |
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C[ornac]9 |
15 |
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Thymeleae |
100 |
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Laurineae |
50 |
So you see that there will be at least 1000 Monochlamydeae. It is better to give a fuller account & to publish a volume more. Then all the Monocotyled can go into one big volume or with ferns (nearly 200 now) into two small ones.
I expect every day a collector back from the North coast, who was there the best part of the year. If you can delay publishing, his plants could be still used for vol IV.10
Yesterday I waited on the treasurer or minister of finances, the hon. G. Verdon, C.B. to ask, whether the remittance of £100 for vol IV is in reality made or not. I regret to learn, that the conflict between the Upper and Lower Houses renders any remittance impossible, until an appropriation Act is passed, and hence, though all other forms for sending this subsidy are gone through, the sum even yet cannot be forwarded by this mail. It is unfortunate, but really I cannot help it
I am quite in the dark, what consignments you have received.
Box 30 contained Goodeniac & Lobeliac &c pr Great Britain, sent in Jan 67.
Box 31. Goodeniaceae & Stylideae sent pr Wellesley, Apr. 67
Box 32 Goodeniaceae & Epacrideae pr Sussex. Aug. 67.
Box 33 Great Britain Epacrideae, Acantheae,11 Asclepiad,12 sent in Aug. The telegrams of this mail announce the noble ship as arrived (sailed Aug. 67)
Box 34 Epacrideae & some supplements pr Lincolnshire, Oct. 67.
Now Box 35 pr. Superb as indicated. The freight for the Lincolnshire consignment is defrayed here but not for the Superb.
Pray give me a full account of all arrivals, that nothing goes amiss
your regardful
Ferd Mueller
Acanthaceae
Acacia acuminata
Amaranthaceae
Asclepiadeae
Bignoneaceae
Calyciflorae
Corolliflorae
Cornacaea
Cruciferae
Cycadeae
Dicliptera
Earlia
Epacrideae
Euphorbiaceae
Gesneriaceae
Goodeniaceae
Graptophyllum
Hydrophylleae
Jasmineae
Laurineae
Lobeliaceae
Monochlamydeae
Monopetaleae
Monocotyledoneae
Orobancheae
Plantagineae
Plumbagineae
Polygoneae
Primulaceae
Proteaceae
Salsolaceae
Santalaceae
Stylideae
Styraceae
Thymeleae
Urticeae
Please cite as “FVM-67-12-21,” 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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/67-12-21