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Melbourne, Sept. 26, 1876
I was very happy dear Dr. Engelman that you honored me with last months mail and sent me your essays about the oaks and agaves. I have already used these valuable writings for my "industrial plants", of which publications just now a new edition is going through the presses. Your famous name was known to me since my boyhood years, when in the dukedom Schleswig I began to examine the western vegetation.
I myself had the desire to emigrate to the United States, when I left the University in 1847 but fate - in no way always friendly and averse to me in later years - has driven me to Australia. I have honorably striven to bring honor to German science, on this continent, but the conditions here for me as foreigner have never been fortunate; the more I worked in the service of the state, the more I was persecuted; - the more I achieved, the more I was envied. My principal life-plan, to write about the universal-flora of Australia, was ruined through the interposition of Benthan, who in the meantime disregarded India and Central Africa.
You ask if Quercus is represented here, no! - I was mistaken in searching for this, as well in the Alps of Australia, where we have Fagus, as also in the higher mountains of north-east Australia. Papua has however already delivered a variety and perhaps a fortunate fate will further direct these forms of the northern hemisphere from the Alps of New Guinea into my hands.
Of the giant Lilies and Amaryllis of your beautiful part of the world we
have only Doryanthes and Cordyline Regia.
I am very anxious to receive notes regarding the utilization of the various Daks and Conifers of Mexico. From the great wealth of your experiences, can you send me any information for my work. I will of course acknowledge all literary gifts. Or could you refer me to someone in Mexico, where I am an honorary member
of the Naturaleza, for technically important observations which have been made
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about wood, fibers, dyes, medicines, oils, vegetables, fruits, feed plants, etc., which I can use for my work. What occurs in the middle and high zones of Mexico, should certainly also be adducible here.
Now, noble man, please accept my thanks for the honor which you have conferred on me through the worthy Asa Gray, starting the exchange of letters with me, which hopefully will last a long time. Some new writings I am sending to you with this mail.
Respectfully yours
Ferd. von Mueller
I am at your service any time and for any circumstance. May I ask for your photograph for the series of pictures of scientific correspondents. What a monument of the diligence and genius of Asa Gray, this
first volume about California's plants.
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It was very kind of you, esteemed Doctor, to take the time with Dr. Barroeta regarding information about industrial plants of Mexico. Therefor I also turned directly to him. I was very happy to receive your photograph and have given it a very prominent place in my album. Please also accept my small picture asa souvenir.
Last week I acquired a book-shop. Last week in book trade I acquired the volumes of the surveys which also contain your excellent treatise about cacti etc. More than a dozen years ago Dr. Asa Gray sent me the seed of Cereus giganteus, from which I grew magnificent plants for my greenhouses. What lovely plants you do have in the United States, namely in the Western plains.
The volume about the plants of California must enrapture every connoisseur.
| I can never become satiated in looking at your beautiful and rare trees. Through me more American trees (namely conifers) exist around Melbourne than Australien.
I will regard the continuation of your correspondence as a Source of happiness.
Your devoted,
F. von Mueller
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It has been a long time, dear friend since I have written to you directly, but in the meantime you will have received some of my recent publications. I owe you my best thanks for your kindness in making me acquainted with Dr. Barroeta, Professor of Natural History in St. Eos, Potosi. Through it a correspondence has ensued, and now I have just heard that there is a possibility that through him a new issue of my "select plants!" in Mexico will be published. Also in other places some importance is being accredited to the Work, and so the East Indian government is publishing an expanded issue of mine, with which a service will be rendered to the forestry there, and whereby perhaps it may be helpful in prevent- ing the terrible famine there and the harvest failures of rice; in that the food plants in the Indian culture should be increased very much.
I always think of you respected sir, when my thoughts bring me to Agaasiz and Alex Braun with whom I am also befriended, because you made a part of your studies with these great intellectuals, and yourself have accomplished so much.
I feel as though you brought me together with a generation which arose before me.
I do not know if I have already thanked you for the receipt of your beautiful photograph, which I have mounted with the highest of my scholarly friends. If I have been so thoughtless as not to have expressed my thanks up to now, please forgive me because of the burdensome department in which I have only very little help; in addition I had to subject myself to a difficult operation, and also was absent for several months on an observation-trip through West Australia.
May you have good health and vitality for a long time, is the wish of your friend.
F. von Mueller
Should I send you seed of Acacia dicurrens, A. saligua, A. pycuantha, in
order to raise these important trees?
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Rec. March 1, 1881 Melbourne P. O. stamp Jan. 21 -'81 Dec. Lh, 80
Your friendly letter, esteemed Doctor, which you dedicated to me at the same time with a letter of our genial Behr, reminds me that I still have not acknowledged the sending of your last exceedingly important writing about Pinus. This is the year of the exhibition and, as public official, I could not remain out of the whirlipool of business that is involved with it. It was with great pleasure that I heard of your selection for the search of the forest riches of California, be- cause no one in all of North-America could spread a brighter light about this, and no one will have a greater influence in bringing about a limitation of the des- truction of the forests there, the most beautiful on earth. For yours and Prof. Sargents mission, America probably has to be thankful to the German statesman, who since 4 years has helped in guiding the fate of the United States.
I admire your vigor! That it is still possible for you to travel through high mountain areas, which are impassable in southern California and in Arizona. Through you we will now probably learn more about the industrial value of the oaks there.
Hoping that you will be preserved for a long time for your admirers and for science, I remain your,
F, von Mueller
I envy Dr. Behr for the good fortune in having become personally acquainted with you. Prof. Hilgard is well known to me by name; I will send him fresh . . . . . . Beed,
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Rec. March 27 Melbourne, Austr. Feb. 19, 1882
Only a few words, esteemed friend, accompany the sending of my census of the plant genera of Australia. Also, I am approaching the age in which one no longer corresponds without purpose, and should not rob you of your valuable time with unimportant epistles. The purpose of today's letter is this. For a new edition of my "Select plants" I need short notes about the trees of Mexico, which in various regions furnish building lumber and $anning bark. I mean the best and real common material, which the workmen process. I called on your mighty help when one of the first editions appeared, and you referred me to Prof. Barroeta in San Luis de Potosi; however, after the exchange of many letters, this exchange did not bring in even a single word of information, even though this man was very courteous in writing.
“Now what is to be done? May I call on your help and on Prof. Sareent's, as the distinguished dendrologists? You are so interested in conifers, oaks, ashes, nut trees etc. that the matter certainly is still important to you and him, Some German workmen in the principal cities would most certainly, if you asked for them, send you some oak leaves with acorns etc., also connifer branches with cones etc., of such trees, which for 300 years, day after day, are being used for boards, build- ing lumber, tanning etc. and yet we know absolutely nothing about the tree varieties, insofar as technical resemblances are concerned,
Hoping that you will forgive my boldness in asking you, especially because I give recognition to all such help in my publications, I remain,
Your,
F, von Mueller
Can I send anything to you or to your academy?
Everything from the mountainous regions of southern Meyico and even from the lowlands of North-Mexico, could be grown in colonies such as Victoria here, At any rate these desired notes would be a gap-filling contribution to the technology of
the plants,
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Herewith, esteemed friend, I am sending you a specimen of a Cuscuta, which I possess from three places of the tropical and subtropical areas of Australia, which distinguishes itself through the 3 - 4 part calyx and therefor 3 - h part corolla and 53 - 4 part filaments. Then it has unusually short styles and very convex fruit- compartments, whereby the capsule appears completely developed inside, comparatively broad and almost lobed,. I was inclined to describe this plant as C. reducta, because of its recurved flower parts; but because I learned from the beautiful treatise which you sent me in 1859, that C. obtusiflora develops similar forms, I did not dare to separate my plants of this variety and publish them as new. Anyway it is a noteworthy addition to the flora of Australia, particularly because up to now we have not known any Cuscuta from the western and central part of the Australian continent.
It would please me very much if you would cast your knowledgeable eye on this growth and kindly give me your views about it. In my Species Census of the plants of Australia, of which I will shortly send you the part of the vascular part, I have held fast to the name C, Australis as the oldest. That one conforms to the specific desig- nation of this widely distributed variety, only a little; however we also have many analogous cases, e.g. in Spiranthes Australis, which also extend themselves from Tasmania and New Zealand to Japan and then into southern Europe.
The staminal scales of Cuscuta are remindful of such with several Zygophyllum varieties., Perhaps you discuss this peculiar Cuscuta with your academicians, Should any of them be concerned with some of my publications, I would be willine to send those which are still available, With deep interest I continue to follow your vigorous activity in the field as also in house-studies, after your University
friends Agassiz, Braun and Schimper have long since departed from the earthly life,
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Absolutely nothing has been accomplished with the inquiries throueh the Professor in St. Louis Potosi, regarding pine trees, firs, oaks, walnut trees from Mexico in regard to commercial timber, tanning bark etc. I did not even receive a note about what is manufactured in that city for floors, etc. An appeal in the German paper of Mexico also appears not to have had any results, at least not until now for publication. This lets the so splendidly by nature endowed land, to appear in a very poor scientific light. Can you once more helpfully intervene
for me? As always,
Your devoted,
F, von Mueller
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