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pean authority who had access to the types. Mueller's specimens 

 and notes were on this account turned over to Benthani, who, 

 assisted by Mueller, issued the celebrated "Flora Australiensis" in 

 seven volumes. 



The best-known of Mueller's own works are the "Eucalypto- 

 graphia," "Systematic Census of Australian Plants," and "Select 

 Extra-Tropical Plants." 



Mr. James Britten, editor of the London Journal of Botany, in 

 the course of a criticism of a sketch of Mueller, published in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, says: "That he had a weakness for titles and 

 a high opinion of his own capabilities was manifest enough, not only 

 to his correspondents, but to those acquainted with his work; but 

 the weakness is one to which many excellent folk are subject, and it 

 would have been affectation had he not recognized the great work 

 he did for Australian botany. That the Baron was capable of 

 great sacrifices on behalf of science is manifest ; the generosity with 

 which he supplied Mr. Benthani with the material which he had 

 accumulated for a Flora of Australia is in itself a sufficient proof 

 of this — indeed, his willingness to communicate information was 

 only equaled by his anxiety to acquire it." 



The botanists of California have been for many years, annually, 

 or more often, reminded of Baron Mueller's unceasing generosity by 

 the receipt of bundles of plants and packages of choice seeds. 

 Indeed the whole of California evidences this generosity. The long 

 lines of lofty Eucalypti in the interior valleys, the many species of 

 Acacia and a host of rare and beautiful Australian shrubs, now 

 at home in all parts of the state, owe to him their first introduction. 

 California's tribute to the memory of Baron Mueller was written 

 by Mr. C H. Shinn in the issue of Garden and Forest for September 

 29, 1897. 



In his Presidential address to the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, last May, Mr. J. H. Maiden suggested that the publication 

 of a complete list of Mueller's works, with biographic annotations, 

 would form a very appropriate memorial of him. "The list," Mr. 

 Maiden said, "should be in strict chronological order, with a botan- 

 ically classified supplement. Such a list would find a place on the 

 work-table of every student of Australian plants, and would go far 

 to keep his memory green. The value of such a publication would 



