To Casimir de Candolle ¹    12 March 1894

12/3/94.

Let me thank you for your kind letter,² dear M. de Candolle, and for all the friendly feelings towards me. I am afraid that I forgot a former request, to send Alchemilla; but the work is here so overwhelming, that some intended duties are postponed and may sink altogether into oblivion. If such at any time should occur, concerning requirements of yours, kindly remind me.

I am greatly beholden to you for sending me the superb volume of the Guttiferae by M. Vesque,³ to which elaboration your distinguished and lamented father referred in his last letter.⁴ I hardly know, what to send you in reciprocity; but if you will be so friendly to send me a list of the works of mine in the De Candollean Library, I will endeavour to complete the series, so far as this is still possible. Your own splendid Monography of the Meliaceae was largely based on anatomic characteristics, so that in this respect you were the precursor of Vesque. I shall be very proud, to furnish for your celebrated monographies the Myoporinae in 1895. The delay has been advantageous, because the warm regions of these plants are the inland or central Deserts of Australia and we have from year to year had more access to the interior "steppes", so that the additional material in the herbarium now admits of giving the geographic range of these various species more fully. Besides we are enabled now to record many additional varieties and complete diagnoses.

Will you kindly convey to M. Masson my sentiments of gratitude for his liberality and ask this distinguish continuator of the vast litterary issues of his celebrated parent, if there is anything, that I could send him from here, — perhaps some of the volumes of my own.

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Alchemilla

Meliaceae

Myoporinae