27/2/82.
I feel, sure, dear Sir Joseph, that the experiment initiated by me to send living plants from K.G. Sound1 to Kew in close cases during the cool season will result in manyfold successes.2
You will be gratified to hear that I have secured the Sonderian collections by purchase on behalf of the Victorian Government.3 I bought the Glumaceae many years ago already;4 but one great gem of the collection, as you know, the South African plants, went to Stockholm.5 My negotiations with my poor departed friend concerning his collections commenced more than 20 years ago.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Glumaceae
King George Sound, WA.
See, for example, M to J. Hooker, 26 August 1881.
You will ... collections is marked with a line in the margin. For M's requests, and the Government's final agreement to purchase the collection, see M to J. Moore, 3 October 1863; M to J. McCulloch, 25 September 1866 (in this edition as 66-09-25a); M to C. Duffy, 20 September 1871; and M to L. Smith, 16 February 1882 and notes to that letter.
See M to J. MacPherson, 6 April 1870.
See Nordenstam (1980).
Please cite as “FVM-82-02-27,” 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