25, WILTON PLACE, S.W.
Oct 29 /68
My dear Sir
I have to thank you for your letter of the 8th Augt1 — I regret to have overlooked the figures of the two Leschenaultias in your Fragmenta till the sheets were printed off — the fact is the plates did not come at the same time as the text and are not referred to in the text of the Fragmenta so that they did not get entered into our interleaved Pritzel2 till too late — as to the plate of the Lithograms omitted that was an oversight — Our set of the Lithograms is not quite complete but I believe we have them now all entered as there is a complete copy at the Linnean Society
Have you had in your set of the clean proofs of the present volume sheet E (p. 49-64)? I find in my set I have 2 copies of sheet E and none of sheet D and am afraid I sent you two of the latter — if so would you the first opportunity return me one — I send the duplicate E. with the sheets now ready
I opened my last letter just as I was posting it to acknowledge the receipt of the box of miscellaneous Monochlamydeae — I hope next week to have a box packed to return to you and shall then have sent to press the conclusion of the present volume — they are always rather long in printing the index and in the [stitching] etc but I hope the volume will be out by the end of November — I shall then have a few other things to do which will oblige me to pause a little before I commence at the 5th vol.
I find I have overlooked the references to Bidaria recta3 & B. leptophylla (Gymnema stenophyllum A Gr. and Marsdenia leptophylla)[.]4 I had noted them but forgotten where they were published fancied they were MS names and omitted them as they could not be adopted. I will add a reference to them and to the abovementioned plates.5
Besides the sheets now sent Solaneae and Scrophularineae are in type but I have not yet the clean proofs to send Lentibularieae and small Personate Orders go to the printers today and tomorrow and that is I believe all I shall get into the volume leaving Acanthaceae Verbenaceae and Labiatae to begin the next.
Ever yours sincerely
George Bentham
Oct 30 The two boxes pr Anglesea just arrived
Dr Ferd Mueller FRS
Acanthaceae
Bidaria recta
Bidaria leptophylla
Gymnema stenophyllum
Labiatae
Lentibularieae
Leschenaultia
Marsdenia leptophylla
Monochlamydeae
Scrophularineae
Solaneae
Verbenaceae
Please cite as “FVM-68-10-29,” 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/68-10-29