12/4/96
Thinking over our pleasant conversation, honored Sir, it occurs to me, that it would also be recommendable to obtain from time to time some copies of the two parts of the "Key to the System of Vict. Plants"1 for your litterary interchanges.2 In this work is also my simplified and emended Candollean System.3 Besides it is the only extensive work, hitherto emanating anywhere, in which the dichotomous mode for characteristics is unbrokenly carried through from the commencement of the Orders to the end of the species. It is also quite original in several other respects in dealing systematically with nearly 2000 species of indigenous plants.4
Very regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Please cite as “FVM-96-04-12a,” 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