24/1/93
Since a long time, dear Prof. Lange, I intended to write to you; but in the busy departmental life in a young colony it is difficult, to do all, that could be wished. I have however born1 you always in most friendly remembrance, not only in connection with the Danish Flora, but also in reference to Spanish plants, recorded in your and Willkomm's great work,2 irrespective of my reminiscences of your great kindness to me through many years and so again also quite recently. —
My object in writing now to you, my honored friend, is to ascertain which of my works are contained in the Library of the Kopenhagen Academy, into which I became recently and so generously elected.3 It may perhaps be possible, to complete more yet the series of these books. I will endeavour also, to send a Giant Todea, but none is left known to me now as available, so that it may only be next year that one more will be discovered.4 Failing in that I must send to Kopenhagen 2 smaller caudices, which could be placed in the Conservatory close together, so as to give an idea of a gigantic one.
Remember me kindly to Etatsrath Steenstrup, whom I met personally with Oerstedt and Forchhammer at the "Versammlung der Naturforscher und Aerzte" in Kiel 1846.5
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Todea
borne?
Willkomm & Lange (1861-80).
M had been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in April 1890; see M to H. Zeuthen, 3 June 1890 (in this edition as 90-06-03b).
In the event, M was able to find a Todea for Lange that season; see M to J. Lange, 17 April 1893.
See Michaelis & Scherk (1847).
Please cite as “FVM-93-01-24a,” 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