[Baron von Meuller1 … who has honored us with his Correspondence for many long years … has placed us under great obligations to him, and recently we have been again highly favored by receiving from him as a kindly token this grand book, the Eucalyptographia, now completed in four decades, making 100 pages.2]
sic.
Ten decades were published, the first four in 1879: see B79.13.11, B80.13.14, B82.13.17, B82.13.07, B84.11.02.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Eucalyptographia', California farmer and journal of useful sciences, 18 December 1879, p. 153. It is dated to early November as the latest that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue of the newspaper. The extract is taken from a longer article, part review, part panegyric, and part self-congratulation on the role the California farmer had played in promoting the spread of Eucalyptus in California by distributing 'free thousands of packets of the seeds'. For further claims of the role of the newspaper, see 'Valuable Australian trees and plants', California farmer and journal of useful sciences, 26 February 1880, p. 188, where fourteen 'new and scarce varieties' recently received are listed; it is not explicit that these were received from M, but he is the likely source.
Please cite as “FVM-79-11-00d,” 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