From Alphonse Milne-Edwards1    9 February 1894

Baron Von Müller

9 fevrier 1894

Cher Monsieur

J’ai recu votre beau livre sur les Eucalyptus et je le presenterai à l’Academie des Sciences qui [en] comprendra tout l’interet.

Les services que vous n’avez pas cessé de rendre à la Science en general et aux Naturalistes francais en particulier vous designent tout naturellement à leur attention et votre nom serait dignement placé à cote de ceux des Correspondants de notre Institut. Vous pouvez etre assuré de mon concours et je parlerai à mes collegues de la manière obligeante dont vous avez toujours aidé les études de ceux qui s’adressaient à vous, des materiaux de recherches que vous leur fournissiez avec la plus grande liberalité et afin de donner plus de poids à mon [...]onnement je vous serais bien [...]2 de m’envoyer une liste sommaire des principaux travaux que vous avez publiés — je serais aussi heureux de presenter d’autres [...] de vous à la bibliotheque de l’Institut. Nos correspondants sont repartis en plusieurs Sections et le nombre des membres y est limité — ceux de la Section de Botanique, etrangers à la France sont au nombre de 5

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker à Kew

M N Pringsheim à Berlin

M Agardh à Lund

M Treub à Batavia

M M. [T.] Masters à Londres

Je ne doute pas que lorsque une vacance se produira vous n’ayez a l’academie des avocats très chalereux

Le Myrmecobius fasciatus et les oeufs d’oiseau que vous avez remis au Dr Rougier me sont arrivés en bon etat. Malheureusement les Corbeaux (Corvis australis) ne me sont parvenus [...] et je n’ai pas les remettre a M Geoff D’ailleurs ce dernier n’est plus Directeur du Jardin d’acclimatat. Le conseil d’administration de ce Jardin a voulu lui donner un caractère commercial qui ne [convient] pas au petit fils d’Etienne Geoff et au fils petit’Isidor Geoff et il prefère cesser ses fonctions. Il continue a etre president de la Societe d’Acclim qui est tout a fait distincte et separe du jardin

Je presume que vous avez recu ma lettre vous remerciant des Dendrolagus et du [...] marsupial aveugle.

 
 
 

9 February 1894

Dear Sir

I have received your beautiful book on the Eucalyptus3 and will present it to the Academy of Sciences which will take great interest in it.

The services that you have not ceased rendering to Science in general and to French Naturalists in particular brings you very naturally to their attention and your name would deservedly be placed alongside those of the Correspondents of our Institute. You may be assured of my support and I shall speak to my colleagues of the obliging way in which you have always helped the studies of those who have appealed to you, of the research materials that you have supplied to them with the greatest liberality and in order to give more weight to my [urging] I should be most [grateful]if you would send me a summary list of the principal works that you have published — I should also be happy to present other [works] of yours to the Institute’s library. Our correspondents are divided into several Sections and the number of members in each is limited — those of the Botany Section who are foreigners number 5

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker at Kew

Mr N. Pringsheim at Berlin

Mr Agardh at Lund

Mr Treub at Batavia

Mr M. [T.] Masters at London

I have no doubt that when a vacancy appears you will have very strong advocates at the Academy4

The Myrmecobius fasciatus 5 and the birds’ eggs that you sent to Dr Rougier have reached me in good condition. Unfortunately the Ravens (Corvus australis) have not arrived [...] and I have not passed them on to Mr Geoff.6 Moreover the latter is no longer Director of the Acclimatization Garden. This Garden’s administrative council wanted to give it a commercial character which did not [sit well] with the grandson of Etienne Geoff and the son of Isidor Geoff7 and he preferred to give up his position. He continues as president of the Acclimatization Society which is completely distinct and separate from the garden

I presume you have received my letter thanking you for the Dendrolagus 8 and for the [little] blind marsupial.9

Letter not found. The text is from a draft prepared by Milne-Edwards.
illegible — All […] in the following text have this meaning.
i.e. Eucalyptographia. See M to A. Milne-Edwards, 1 January 1894.
See also C. Naudin to the Académie des Sciences, Paris, 24 June 1895, below. M was elected a Corresponding Member of the Académie on 1 July 1895.
Banded ant-eater or Numbat.
Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. M had indicated he was sending a pair of Australian ravens, Corvus australis, for the zoo in the Bois de Bologne, Paris.
Étienne and Isidor Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Tree kangaroo.
In the letter to which Milne-Edwards is replying, M mentioned having sent, some months earlier, a marsupial mole from Central Australia.

Please cite as “FVM-94-02-09,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-02-09