To William Mitten1    2 September 1876

2/9/76

 

I am under much obligation to you, dear Mr Mitten, for the sending & naming of the mosses from Paramatta2 &c, forwarded by Mr Arthur Barnett with great promptness. I wish much, that an index of names of all Australian mosses with indications of their localities could be published.3 The material is partly at Kew and with you, partly with Hampe, partly with Lindberg (who has kept a large portion of my bryologic collections since years and is regardless to all my letters for returning these collections), partly with Berggren.

But as the means of communication are now so easy in Europe, there could be not much difficulty, if the elaboration was taken up by a leading bryologist like yourself, as the loan of the collections from Blankenburg, Stockholm and Helsingfors4 might be obtained.

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
MS black edged — M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.
2
NSW.
3
Mitten prepared an enumeration of Australian mosses that M edited and published (B83.05.01).
4
Now Helsinki.

Please cite as “FVM-76-09-02,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/76-09-02