1/3/94.
By last weeks mail, honored Sir, I sent you 2 small packages of Polynesian Meliaceae.1 By this weeks mail I send seven small packages of Papuan Meliaceae.2 These sendings exhaust my supply.3 The numbers are only for your and my use, as I have sent to no one else these plants. Therefore the numbers should not be cited in your treatise. You will receive in toto nearly 100 specimens, but they may represent not half as many species. Will you kindly remember, that most of also these plants (Meliaceae) were collected on my sole instigation, that money was spent for them or donations were made in reciprocity, involving monetary outlay, quite irrespective of much correspondence of mine and other exertions here. In case of unnumbered specimens, nothing has been kept here, so that of these unnumbered specimens I would like to have a little back after your examination, so that the species may be represented in the great Governm. Collection ("Herbier") here. I regret that in many instances the material is so very imperfect.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Meliaceae
Despatch announced in M to C. de Candolle, 24 February 1894.
These specimens were offered in M to C. de Candolle, 23 September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-23a).
However, additional material was found and its despatch announced in M to C. de Candolle, 5 March 1894.
MS annotation by de Candolle: 'rep 9,4,94'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-94-03-01,” 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