To George Bentham   13 August 1869

13/8/69

 

I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, that you so well proceed with the 5th vol. The arrangement you made in disposing of the species of Myoporinae seems very applicable.1 The views on the limits of genera must of necessity vary much, particularly as long as all the species are not yet known.

We have telegraphic news respecting the arrival of the Anglesey. So, I trust, my two boxes will have come to you as safe as the rest.2 I am shipping to Kew this week pr Norfolk some supplemental Monochlamydeae. I shall unquestionalbly have to send an other supplemental case, as always (almost daily) plants arrive from distant places, which show a wider extent of the species than formerly ascertained.

Some notes on Banksiae & Dryandrae, are in manuscript since the end of the last year. I hope to publish them in the next number of the Fragmenta.3

Let me hope you are well and that you not overstrain your strenght

Always with

deep regards

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Banksia

Dryandra

Monochlamydeae

Myoporinae

1
See G. Bentham to M, 9 June 1869 (in this edition as 69.06.09a).
2
M shipped two boxes per i on 7 July 1869 (Notebook recording despatch of plants for Flora Australiensis, RB, MSS M44, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).
3
B69.10.01, pp 50-9.

Please cite as “FVM-69-08-13,” 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/69-08-13