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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn   7 Aug 1869

Melbourne bot Garden

7./8/69

Dear Mr Gunn.

I have to pay you a thousand thanks for your very kind disinterested and valuable transmission of Isoetes, which I shall at once render accessible to the Bordeaux Monographer,1 together with your valuable notes, so that they may be quoted and incorporated in his essay

We have Pilularia only as yet found in one spot in Victoria I fully concur in your views about the distribution of the water plants and the agents affecting them.

May I be allowed to enclose this poor little portrait for your friend the Rev. H. P. Kane, who so kindly left his for my Album. If an other copy is acceptable to you I will gladly send it. I need not say that I should be so glad to enrol yours in my gallery of Celebrities. 2

Ever most regardfully

yr

Ferd. Mueller

Isoetes

Pilularia

1

M. C. Durieu de Maisonneuve; see M to R. Gunn, 27 January 1864 (in this edition as 64-01-27g).

2

No image of either Kane or Gunn has been identified at MEL, but see M to J. Haast, 29 July 1862 (in this edition as 62-07-29b) and notes thereto.

Please cite as “FVM-69-08-07,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/69-08-07