From George Bentham   8 April 1874

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

April 8 /74

My dear Sir

I am afraid I forgot last mail to write to you to say that I duly received the £100 for the 7th & last vol of Flora Australiensis1 I am now very busy with Genera Plantarum2 but I confidently hope to attack the last batch of Flora Australiensis in the autumn — I feel rather fatigued but I am going to make a little trip to Florence which I hope will set me up again.

I was glad to hear from you that you had made a little excursion3 — I saw Mr G. Macleay a few days since who has just returned safe home much benefitted by his visit to Australia.

I think I mentioned in my last letter that I should be much obliged if you could send the Monocotyledons so as to be here in the autumn.

It would be a great convenience if you could send for the herbarium at Kew specimens of the various species published in your Fragmenta since the Flora as we have often plants to name which we want to compare

Yours very sincerely

George Bentham

 

Baron v. Mueller

1
Bentham (1863-78) . See M to G. Bentham, 1 December 1873.
2
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
3
M spent Christmas 1873 with Dr Daniel Curdie in the Western District of Vic, after measuring the heights of trees in the Upper Yarra (M to G. Bentham, 1 January 1874).

Please cite as “FVM-74-04-08,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/74-04-08