10/9/82.
My best thanks are due to you, honored and venerable Sir, that you so obligingly inquired into the claims of Vahea. I hope, that I have not been indiscrete in giving publicity to that portion of your last kind letter. I had just to write an article (gratis) for the monthly number of the pharmaceutic Society of Victoria, as a honor. Member, and was glad of the opportunity, to seize on a subject interesting for pharmaceutic readers.1 With all others I admire your working power at so advanced an age! You must feel happy, to have maintained the high name of your illustrious father so well and so long, and that a gifted and assiduous son follows your footsteps.
At the end of the year I shall be able to send you the "census" of the Austral. plant-species, which is now printed as far as Candolleaceae (Stylideae) as a Commentary to the Flor. Australiensis and the fragmenta.2 I have restored Labillardières first Candollea and also Loureiro's Stylidium. I hope the change will be pleasing to you and M. Casimir de Candolle, as it is now a grand monument in bot. science dedicatory.
The Eucalyptography is in arrear, because the Gov. Printing office is partly burnt down.
I am greatly beholden to you for sending me so kindly your essay on Darwin.3 I greatly admire his "voyage",4 his geologic researches, but not his "adscende" theories.5
With regardful and grateful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I feel greatly obliged to Dr Fournier also.6
Like with Hevea, Centipeda, Floriscopa &c Botanists will become quickly accustomed to use the name Candollea instead of Stylidium.
Candollea
Candolleaceae
Centipeda
Floriscopa
Hevea
Stylideae
Stylidium
Vahea
Please cite as “FVM-82-09-10b,” 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 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-09-10b