12/1/83
The pleasing duty devolves on me, honored Sir, to express my best thanks for your generosity of sending me a copy of your important volume "l'origine des plantes cultivées".1 It is a book embracing a vast amount of research, and it is all the more valuable to us, as gift to science from you offered at a venerable age.
Oryza is doubtless indigenous to several parts of tropical Australia, and Indigofera tinctoria has been found in the virgin forests on the Endeavour-River,2 where no Indigo-plantations exist.
I was anxious to place my homage for you on public record, and trust that the expressions in which I have done this, will be pleasing to you. The proof-sheet of the dedication from my new volume "systematic Census," was forwarded by last mail.3
With deep veneration always your
Ferd. von Mueller
Indigofera tinctoria
Oryza
A. de Candolle (1882).
Qld.
B83.03.04. M dedicated this work to G. Bentham, J. Hooker and A. de Candolle, 'who as heirs of great names worthily sustain world-wide ancestral fame, and who as leaders in phytography during more than a generation's time will be pre-eminent in biomorphic science through all ages'.
Please cite as “FVM-83-01-12,” 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