To Sir John Lubbock1    10 February 1886

10/2/86

 

Allow me, dear Sir John, to introduce to you a particular scientific friend of mine, Dr von Lendenfeld, of whose important researches in Australia and New Zealand you will be aware.2 His future scientific working is secured for Britain, and so he will come thus often under the notice of the great society, over which you so ably preside.

Would it be advisable, to create out of the Legacy of Bentham a medal in remembrance of him for descriptive botany? Its annual distribution would give additional impetus to strictly phytographic work, which has come much into the background, while anatomic and physiologic researches in Botany latterly took much precedence.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

1
Name inferred from content of letter. Lubbock was President of the Linnean Society of London at the time; the Bentham legacy was to the Linnean Society.
2
Lendenfeld wrote many papers published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Linnean Society of New South Wales (1887), pp. 31- 35. Monographs on this work were published as Lendenfeld (1887), (1888) and (1889).

Please cite as “FVM-86-02-10a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-02-10a