To Asa Gray   1 August 1878

1/8/78.

 

It is my pleasing duty, dear Dr Gray, to acknowledge the sending of your most valuable and important volume on N. American plants in continuation of the great work of Dr. Torrey & yourself.1 What a host of novelty the rich, particularly western flora has afforded you! You may well be enveyed for your grand successes!

In accordance with your wishes, I have forwarded a copy (bound) of vol. X of the Fragmenta2 for yourself. It will be long before a new volume3 can appear, because only rarely now new plants turn up in any part of Australia. If any of my publications are acceptable for the Academy,4 of which you are the dignified president, I will gladly send them. Any reviews of my writings, from your friendly pen would remain unknown to me, unless you sent me the print yourself, as in former years.5 I hope you got my English (enlarged) edition of Wittsteins Chemistry of plants,6 which ought to prove valuable to you, indeed to any medical man. Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
Gray (1878)? This work is shown on the title page as having been published in May 1878.
2
Published 1876 and 1877.
3
The first fascicle of vol. 11 was published in January 1879 (B79.01.01), but the final fascicle did not appear until after 2 November 1881 or possibly early 1882, see B81.13.12.
4
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston.
5
Gray reviewed the first decades of M's Eucalyptographia (B79.13.11) in Gray (1879).
6
Wittstein (1878).

Please cite as “FVM-78-08-01,” 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/78-08-01