To Léon Dejardin   22 April 1894

Private

22/4/94

 

If you like, dear Consul, to send my large illustrated work "Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous plants"1 to your Government, I feel sure, that the hon. the Premier on a written request of yours would cause this work to be supplied; but I think it best, that my name not be mentioned as having suggested this.2 The Book would prove useful in connection with the Saltbush-seeds, now sent (Atriplex halimoides, A. nummularium, A. vesicarium).

When will the "Australien" be here on her home voyage. I missed calling on the Doctor, to thank him for having taken some rare specimens to the Musée d’histoire naturelle on the ships last home voyage.3

With regardful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Atriplex halimoides

Atriplex nummularium

Atriplex vesicarium

 
1
B89.13.04, B90.13.14, B91.13.24..
2
While Dejardin does not seem to have taken up Mueller's suggestion, the German Consul General requested of the Premier, and was granted, copies of two of Mueller's works for the Governor of New Guinea, namely Eucalyptographia (B79.13.11, B80.13.14, B82.13.17, B83.13.07, B84.13.19) and the most recent edition of the Select extra-tropical plants (B91.13.10); see No. 1596, unit 13, VPRS 1164, Public Record Office, Victoria.
3
See M to A. Milne-Edwards, 1 January 1894.

Please cite as “FVM-94-04-22,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-04-22