To George Bentham   6 September 1871

Melbourne bot. Garden

6/9/71.

 

Do not think, my good and dear Mr Bentham, that I am unmindful of you and your requirements, because I passed a mail or two without writing. While you are yet amidst the "genera"1 there was no necessity to disturb you, besides the forest- & industrial affairs of the Country have absorbed my spare moments for some months past.2 Whenever I learn from you, I will send supplemental material, orchideae &c

It is marvellous, with what ease you at your venerable age are still working.

Ever your regardful

Baron Ferd. von Mueller.

 

orchideae

1
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
2
M was a member of Victoria’s Royal Commission on Foreign Industries and Forests; s ee B72.14.01.

Please cite as “FVM-71-09-06a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-09-06a