Feb. 22, 1879 



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. Louis, 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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