25/1/88.
Let me acknowledge with best thanks, dear Prof. Liversidge, the receipt of the two impressions of the XX. vol,1 so carefully brought out under your auspices. What an amount of important research, displayed in this volume, again, and what a grand series already!
I received the volumes only this evening from the Royal Society here, as pressure of work prevented me from attending any of the meetings recently.
My only regret is, that I was unable to contribute largely to such a volume.2 But my time all through 1887 was much extra taxed by the elaboration of the “Key to the system of Vict. plants”3 according to the difficult Lamarckian method. In a few months that task will be completed, when I shall likely have some more spare-hours for science-work, altho’ the daily routine-engagements are always numerous, to which indeed the obligations for the forthcoming Centenary Exhibition4 will add very largely.
With regardful remembrance
Your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Pray remember me to the excellent Dr. Leibius.
Please cite as “FVM-88-01-25a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/88-01-25a