25, WILTON PLACE, S.W.
July 12 /68
My dear Sir
I write a few lines to say that a box was despatched to you last week of which I trust you have received the bill of lading from Kew and another will be sent off in a few days. I send by this post 12 more sheets of the Flora1 all that is printed off — more is in type but I shall now go on very slowly with the printing for a couple of months as I leave town tomorrow morning and shall not be back to work till the middle of September. The Orders I am now printing contain so large a number of genera in proportion to the species that they take up more space and as by the agreement with the Publishers I have to issue a thin volume to compensate for the extra bulk of the third I doubt much if I shall get more than Solaneae into it The Styracaceae Jasmineae Apocyneae Asclepiadeae Loganiaceae and Gentianeae are in the printers hands, the Boragineae only want the last copying out for press which I shall do in the country. Convolvulaceae are done except the revision with your specimens which I hope to do on passing through town for a few days in August so that to finish the volume in September I shall only have the Solaneae — and one or two small orders if I can get them in — the Personate or Bilabiate orders (Scrophularineae Verbenaceae Labiatae etc) will have I fear to stand over for the 5th vol.2 I shall therefore not trouble you to send any more till you hear from me that I have begun upon the 5th vol., which will not be till next year.
I have duly received yours of the 24th April3 and shall attend to the various suggestions you make
It is very possible that I may sometimes in the large parcels of some species in your collection have let here and there a specimen in out of place[.]4 I take what pains I can but now and then a mistake may occur and the specimens being loose in double sheets I cannot turn them over so frequently and readily as ours which being all fastened down on single sheets of stiffer paper can be turned over rapidly like the leaves of a book — besides I get sometimes bewildered in the great heaps of specimens — but I trust to you to correct any mistakes I may make
Ever yours sincerely
George Bentham
Dr F. Mueller FRS &c
Apocyneae
Asclepiadeae
Boragineae
Convolvulaceae
Gentianeae
Jasmineae
Labiatae
Loganiaceae
Scrophularineae
Solaneae
Styracaceae
Verbenaceae
Please cite as “FVM-68-07-12,” 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/68-07-12