25/3/84
In the publication of the Linnéan Society of New South Wales, dear Professor Gray, I have given notes on Linnaeus name from a recent communication of Prof J. Agardh of Lund.1 The great Naturalist wrote his name himself Linné, after he was ennobled by the King of Sweden, even putting it thus on the title page of some of his last printed writings. In Denmark and Germany it is always written Linné from my own knowledge; and I believe the same is the case in most European states.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
M quoted from Agardh's letter, in English translation, in M to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, December 1883 (in this edition as 83-12-00c) (B84.04.10). See also M to A. Gray, 25 August 1883.
Please cite as “FVM-84-03-25,” 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