23/5/93
Let me express my best thanks, dear Mons Autran, to Mr Barbey and yourself, for having sent me the commencement of the new periodic publications, emanating from the collections of Boissier.1 This promises to be a most important Serial, and one also of perpetuity. I will forward from time to time publications of mine, as they appear, also small packages of dried plants, so far as they can be sent by post. I will endeavour also to send former works of mine, as opportunities arise.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
What a loss that of the great Alph. de Candolle! I gave on the 8th May an oration in his memory at the Victorian Field-Naturalists-Club, of which I am Patron.2 He wrote after nearly 40 years correspondence a most touching letter only to me two weeks before his death.3
It will afford me particular pleasure, to contribute occasionally to the Bulletin of the Herbier de Boissier. I can do so in the French language, but can write more fluently and quickly in English, German and Latin.
Please cite as “FVM-93-05-23a,” 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