To George Bentham   1 December 1873

Melbourne

1/12/73

 

The expenditure of £100, dear Mr Bentham, for the next volume1 has been authorized formally. If you get no intimation of its being placed at your disposal already by this mail, you will be sure to get such by the next, or if not you need only place yourself in communication with the hon. Archibald Michie, Q.C., the present Agent General of Victoria in London.

I cannot imagine what became of the Australian specimens of Bischoffia Javanic[a]and at least one Aporosa.2 Perhaps they were mislaid here, what will be pardonable through the narrowness of space here

Let me trust that you health is firm. I was much gladdened when I saw by last mail, that the 6th vol. had been brought to a conclusion by your unceasing exertions.3

As yet I have no bill of loading of the case with Haemodoraceae &c. Will you kindly enquire by what ship the return sending of that portion of the collection has been effected.4

Regardfully always

your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Aporosa

Bischoffia Javanica

Haemodoraceae

 
1
The Victorian Government's payment to Bentham for his work on Flora australiensis was included in the 'Additional Estimates for 1873-4', approved on 28 October 1873 (Victoria, Parliamentary Debates , vol. 17, session 1873, pp 2070-71).
2
See G. Bentham to M, 24 September 1873.
3
See G. Bentham to M, 24 September 1873.
4
MS annotation, possibly by Hooker: 'K[osciusko] | July'. Cf. G. Bentham to M, 27 August 1873: 'I trust that you will have received safe the Monocotyledons which were sent I believe by the Kosciusko'. Kosciusko began to unload cargo at Williamstown on 14 October 1873 ( Argus , 15 October 1873, p. 4). The case was presumably waiting to be collected when M wrote.

Please cite as “FVM-73-12-01a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-12-01a