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.
A. Gray (1878-97). The first part issued was published as vol. 2, part 1, in May 1878.
Published in parts during 1876 and 1877, with bound copies issued in March 1878 (B78.03.10).
The first fascicle of vol. 11 was published in January 1879 (B79.01.01), but bound copies of the complete volume were not issued until May 1882 (B82.05.22).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston.
Gray reviewed the first decades of M's Eucalyptographia (B79.13.11) in A. Gray (1879).
B78.06.09.
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