6/9/79
By this months post, dear Dr. Gray, I send you the two first decades of the Eucalyptus Atlas, and I hope to send the 3th & 4th by the October Mail.1
In any review, kindly remember that I have been cruelly excluded out of my bot. Garden for more than six years, where I had about 60 species of Eucalyptus under culture, many of them since lost. The destruction of my Department in most of its branches has delayed also the appearance of this Atlas, and you will also kindly consider, that many of the experimental tests of the woods, whether chemical or dynamic or anatomic could not be carried out, since in 1873 even my laboratory was pulled down by mere malice, and I even was deprived of my apparatus. If you review the Decades, pray, send me the pages of the periodical, as otherwise I shall never even read the review myself.2
If the Library of the Academy, of which you are the worthy President,3 likes to have also a Copy of the Atlas, I will be happy to send it.
Various publications have been forwarded to you from time to time. I hope they reached you "franco"4; perhaps they never arrived at all.
With the best wishes for your health & happiness and for the progress of your glorious labours I remain your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller.
Eucalyptus
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-06,” 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/79-09-06