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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle   17 Mar 1895

17/3/95

Am quite touched, honored friend, with sending the memorial-medal of your celebrated father. It will be preserved with my best treasures such as the Royal Medal of the R.S. of London, and will be honored also by my heirs, when I shall have passed away! The portrait of your illustrious parent in my study-room reminds me daily of him.1

I have some hope, that the lithograms of Candolleaceous plants will soon be continued.2 I am now anxious to get the drawings done, so that somewhat later, when funds will become available, quickly the lithography can be proceeded with. My phytographic work had however largely to be laid aside during the last 3 years so that still more time could be devoted to the rural interests in this time of financial depression here.

The nineth edition of the "Select plants," again considerably augmented will be commenced to be printed next month,3 so that it can appear still in 1895. With regardful and grateful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

1

No image of either Candolle has been identified at MEL, but see M to J. Haast, 29 July 1862 (in this edition as 62-07-29b) and notes thereto.

2

M's hopes came to nothing, no further Decades of his Iconography of Candolleaceous plants were published after the first (B92.13.02).

3

B95.13.02.

Please cite as “FVM-95-03-17,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-03-17