19/4/87
Your kind announcement, dear Prof Abbot, of my election, reached me only quite recently, along with some publications from various places of the U.S. through some channel unknown to me; so that I cannot say, where the detention occurred. Thus my tardy acknowledgement will be excused. If you wrote to the excellent Mr. George Davis, Medical Publisher at Detroit, that liberal Gentleman, would be sure to send you a copy of his American edition of my "select plants for industrial culture and naturalisation."1
I send your Society for kind acceptance by this post:
a quarto-volume of illustrations of myoporinous plants (the text will appear next year);2
— also my system "Census of Austral. plants" with three supplements.3 Let me kindly know, whether all reached you safely and free. My departmental stamp franks to the U.S.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-87-04-19c,” 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