15./1/81.
I have to thank you, dear Sir Joseph, for sending me the copy of your last annual report,1 showing again the scope of the wide progressive labours of Kew. Will you allow me to draw your attention to the transfer of Landolphia to Va[h]ea, effected in my enlarged edition of Wittstein's Chemistry of plants,2 and continued in the Calcutta and now also in the still further augmented Sydney edition of my select plants.3 Both works must be very handy to any bot. establishment. I was surprised, that A. de Candolle in his "phytographi[e]"4 took no notice whatever of my huge Museum of dried plants nor any thing else of my Department.5 I cannot understand it. I do not care for myself, but do not like to see my Department unjustly ignored, though I got accustomed already to that in many ways. This evening I saw Miss North6 after her voyage to West Australia, and bid her Adieu, as she will start for Tasmania in a few days. Her paintings of W.A. vegetation are grand. I particularly admired your fathers;7 you probably have this brillant8 species at Kew, as I sent seeds repeatedly.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Landolphia
Vahea
Please cite as “FVM-81-01-15,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-01-15