To Odoardo Beccari   1 January 1881

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Let me offer my best felicitation to the new year, dear Dr Beccari. May it be to you one of happiness & health! Should you see Madame Smillie, the poor Lady, who lost her last most accomplished child in your city,1 then pray give her also my best wishes for the new year.

I have just purchased the two volumes of Signor D’Albertis on his Papuan travels, in which you give a list of his plants.2 I have received the specimens of Mimosa saligna of Labill.3 They represent two species, one probably from West Australia, if not both. I will try to make them out, when the jurors work for the intercolonial Exhibition is over.4

Wishing you every success in your great labors on the Sunda- & Papua-Flora, I remain

your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

I shall only be able to make a return-sending of dried plants, when the Exhibition work is over.

I enjoy the friendship of the Marquis & Marchioness of Toverena here very much

Best salutations to Signor D’Albertis.

 

Mimosa saligna

1
See M to O. Beccari, 23 September 1880.
2
Albertis (1880). Beccari provided two appendices: ‘Notes on the plants collected by Sig. L. M. D’Albertis in New Guinea’, vol. 2, pp. 391–5, and ‘Catalogue of the plants of the Fly River, 1877’, vol. 2, pp. 396–400.
3
See M to O. Beccari, 1 September 1880.
4
International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.

Please cite as “FVM-81-01-01c,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-01-01c